Introducing KO-MA, a French alternative post-hardcore/noise/indie-punk trio which delivers a crushing and cinematic statement with ‘Anthropolis’, a debut full-length record that feels less like an album and more like a warning signal transmitted from the collapsing heart of the modern world.
Out now on CD, 2xLP & digital formats via Kinsfolk, Ma Saret Records (Ananda, Membrane, Shovel…), Tout Doux Records (Constante), Cœur sur Toi Records et No Need Name, the release unfolds as a dystopian urban fresco balancing raw violence, emotional exhaustion and fleeting moments of fragile humanity.
Emerging from Tours, France, KO-MA has steadily built a reputation through an uncompromising blend of post-hardcore urgency, abrasive noise textures and punk immediacy. Following the impact of the 2023 EP ‘TRENCADIS’, the trio expands its vision dramatically with ‘Anthropolis’ : a dense and immersive exploration of anxiety, alienation and psychological erosion within the machinery of contemporary metropolitan life.
Musically, the band weaponizes tension with remarkable precision. Echoes of Birds In Row, Coilguns, La Dispute, Fugazi and Sonic Youth resonate throughout the record, yet KO-MA never slips into imitation or being under heavy influence. Instead, the trio channels those influences into something instinctive, abrasive and deeply human, constantly shifting between suffocating chaos and moments of eerie fragility.
More than just a collection of songs, ‘Anthropolis’ operates as both speculative fiction and social autopsy. Through layers of dissonance, tension and cathartic release, KO-MA constructs a suffocating sonic landscape where fractured identities, hyper-connectivity and systemic decay collide head-on. Every track feels like another crack spreading across the concrete surface of a civilisation slowly consuming itself.
On ‘Anthropolis’, KO-MA does not simply soundtrack the modern city – they expose its fractures. The result is abrasive, urgent and disturbingly familiar: a mirror reflecting the contradictions, exhaustion and silent violence embedded within contemporary existence.
