About This Album
Pop, as a versatile and endlessly adaptive creative form, underpins every layer of Mahlini, an album originating in Indonesia that weaves together an extraordinary range of pop subgenres to create a work that defies narrow sonic categorization at every turn. The project draws from a rich roster of stylistic influences that span the global landscape of pop, each integrated with intentionality to avoid the sense of a disjointed, haphazard collection of sounds, instead crafting a unified body of work that holds each influence as equal to the last. Electronic pop’s willingness to reimagine the structure of pop recordings informs much of the album’s framework, while folk pop’s longstanding ties to narrative and cultural heritage adds a layer of rootedness that grounds the more experimental elements of the project.
