In August 2017 new album and tour "angst" were announced for September. Preceded by the songs "Flowershop Forget-Me-Not", "Yellow Socks & Angst" and "Pockets Of Rain". On Friday September 15 "Yellow Socks & Angst" was added to Spotify's popular New Music Friday playlist. "angst" was released by the band's own WERF Records and largely sold through the band's own website. Despite this, on the back of very good reviews in OOR, Algemeen Dagblad and Lust For Life a.o., and promo shows on Dutch Radio, it entered the Dutch Album Top 100 at #40. The European 2017-2018 tour started in September 2017. Early November 2017 a 12-second promo for the tour was broadcast on Dutch TV, featuring "Port Of Amsterdam", from the albums "Henk" (1986) and "URK" (1989, live). Late November the band played "Radio Orange" on Holland's biggest TV show De Wereld Draait Door, after which "angst" returned to the iTunes Top 15. Early December NITS played the same song on Belgian TV show "De Zevende Dag". In January 2018 Spotify released the playlist "This is: NITS" featuring 40 songs from "Tent" (1979) all the way up to "angst" (2017). From "Tutti Ragazzi" to "In The Dutch Mountains" and from "Giant Normal Dwarf" to "Pockets Of Rain".