About This Album
Across the span of creative pop work that leads to this full-length album, a vast array of stylistic choices come together to weave a collection that pulls from every corner of modern pop’s most dynamic and boundary-blending subgenres, rooted in the Indonesian creative scene that nurtured its development. Long before the final tracks of The Upstairs were assembled, the groundwork for its genre-defying identity was laid by a commitment to testing the limits of what pop music can hold, refusing to be boxed into any single category that might limit the range of expression the album puts forward. As the project took shape, each layer of its sound drew from a distinct set of stylistic traditions that all fall under the wide umbrella of pop, starting with the electronic pop influences that weave through core sections of the work, adding textured, synthetic layers that ground some of the album’s most immersive moments.
