About This Album
Indonesian pop has long been a sprawling, interconnected landscape that holds within it every shade of expression that might emerge from the archipelago’s thousands of islands, a space where works that explore the many layers of what it means to create and connect within a diverse, multilingual, multigenerational national culture take root and resonate across communities both within the country’s borders and far beyond them. The album SIDES, rooted in this rich tradition of Indonesian pop, carries its title as a quiet manifesto of the kinds of multiplicities that make the genre such a vital, evolving force, rejecting the idea that any creative work can be reduced to a single, fixed interpretation or a single, unchanging purpose for every listener who encounters it.
