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Political rock band .Feast talks new EP, messiahs and waning rage

On the band's latest EP,  Abdi Lara Insani, .Feast tells the story of a modern-day messiah from a lionized Javanese prophecy. 

Felix Martua (The Jakarta Post)
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Fri, April 22, 2022

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Political rock band .Feast talks new EP, messiahs and waning rage Messiah or crook: For their latest EP, ‘Abdi Lara Insani’, released on Friday, .Feast found inspiration in Iwan Fals' classic folk tune “Bento” and the legendary Javanese prophecy, “Jangka Jayabaya”. (Courtesy of Sun Eater) (Courtesy of Sun Eater/Courtesy of Sun Eater)

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em>On the band's latest EP, Abdi Lara Insani, .Feast tells the story of a modern-day messiah from a lionized Javanese prophecy.

The band .Feast, has come a long way since its unostentatious start as a group of five unfettered college students nine years ago. One full-length studio album and two extended playlists (EPs) later, the quintet has finally earned the right to celebrate not only their maturity as a more seasoned act, but also their shared chemistry.

“I have known these rascals for a decade now,” vocalist Baskara Putra told The Jakarta Post on Wednesday.

“I can go so far as to say that I'm closer to them than a few members of my actual birth family. I can always tell when they have something on their mind, even without them telling me. And that emotionally translates very well on the stage, as it does in our songs,” said Baskara, who is also known for his solo project Hindia and as a co-vocalist of pop-leaning band Lomba Sihir.

No wonder he heralded the band’s latest EP, Abdi Lara Insani, released on Friday, as its most solid outing yet, “in terms of [our] chemistry [as a band]”.

The eight-track collection finds the quintet not only packaging their characteristic sociopolitical commentary into the album’s character arc, but also refining the rock sound that catapulted the band to mainstream consciousness in the latter half of the 2010s.

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