Kim Lunner – From Dusk To Dawn (Album – Scentair Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Future-Pop.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: Two years after the debut album “This Is Me” ScentAir Records has released the second album by Norwegian artist Kim Lunner.
Content: The style and influences haven’t really changed. Kim Lunner remains driven by good-old Electro-Pop standards while there also is an explicit Future-Pop element reminding me of bands like VNV Nation and Ruined Conflict. I also noticed a very few cuts which are darker and harder featuring solid EBM bass lines.
+ + + : If you already liked the debut album you’re going to like “From Dusk To Dawn” as well. This is a diversified production mixing harder and softer cuts together. I’m more into the ‘harder’ cuts for the cool bass lines like featured at “The Reason”, the darker approach running through “Time To Run” and “Holding Hands” which is my absolute favorite one.
– – – : The sweeter side of this work can’t convince me. It sounds more average like and without surprises.
Conclusion: A fully enjoyable and varied Electro-Pop production.
Best songs: “Holding Hands”, “The Reason”, “Time To Run”.
Rate: 7.
Artist: www.facebook.com/kim.lunner
Label: www.scent-air.com / www.facebook.com/ScentairRecords
About Kim Lunner
Kim Lunner was born in Norway in 1977 and has been active in music since 2011. A drummer by training, he builds his own drum beats and works with slow tempos and synth patterns, with lyrics drawn from loss, longing, love, frustration and anger. He started singing on his own tracks in 2020.
His debut album “This Is Me” was released on May 20, 2020 by the Russian synth label ScentAir Records, which also issued “From Dusk To Dawn” in 2022. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Lunner moved to the Danish label Town And Towers Records in 2022.
In 2023 he joined the Norwegian future pop band Supercraft and co-founded the project State of Anguish with Egil Thoms Hansen. By 2025 he had released more than 25 singles, four EPs and five albums, among them the single “With You” and the album “Midnight Sky”, both on Town And Towers Records.
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