Indonesian post-punk band Doust have released their first single since 2023’s Strange Places single. It’s a gloomy goth synth driven track full of classic 1980’s sounding hooks, deadpan and shouty vocals with a fusion of The Cure and Killing Joke … Continue reading Doust – Alone In This Room
Indonesian band mmmarkos! should be releasing their new EP Preliminer any day now. Motion is the lead track from said EP being a vibrant indiepop that glitters, although musically that’s in direct contrast to the lyrics that deal with the … Continue reading mmmarkos! – Motion
We never used to have proms in the UK. But like the commercialism of Halloween, proms have been come as part of UK culture thanks to adopting the customs of our friends across the pond. We had school discos at … Continue reading Drizzly., Moongazing and Her – Best Prom Ever
The charmingly named (possibly after a Super chunk compilation) Tossing Seed hail from Magelang, Indonesia, forming last year. The label makes reference to previous singles, but all I have found is this raw recording from last year. Either way, I … Continue reading Tossing Seed – When You Come Around
Lunarways are Yala, Ical, Erik, Anand and Dewok. I am not sure what part of Indonesia they are from, but they record for the Surabaya based Paska Records. Balada Distorsi (Distortion Ballad) is their second single, following last year’s Sun/Daze … Continue reading Lunarways – Balada Distorsi
mmmarkos! is an Indonesian band comprising Angelina Paskali (vocal), Fadhullah Hamid (guitar) and Ivan Reza (bass). The band were formed via the Surabaya Dynamics University scene and like many of their peers they are inspired by UK/US indiepop. However, carbon … Continue reading mmmarkos! – Live in My Head
Indonesian based Lunarways have released what I presume to be their debut single. Titled Sun/Daze it features two tracks being Be The One & Flowering Hearts respectively. Like many bands from that country both tracks are twee influenced indiepop affairs … Continue reading Lunarways – Sun/Daze
Bitter to See You is a gloomy twee pop track that deals with unrequited love. Whilst it has it’s influences in the past it’s a modern take on C86 influenced indiepop. Drizzly seems to be the work of the one … Continue reading Drizzly – Bitter to See You
I Don’t Want War I Don’t Want Zinc Coffins to Come to Our Country We Don’t Need to Kill to Prove We’re Good for Anything Else As people say life goes on. Here is the Playlist: or listen on YouTube … Continue reading The Pre-Op Sampler
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