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Rock sextet Sousade spotlights mental health in latest singles
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Dark minds: Singles-collection 'Bring The Echoes' is the rock band Sousade's darkest material yet since its debut back in 2020. (Courtesy of Sousade/Diyas Aradia) (Courtesy of Sousade/Diyas Aradia)
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he Bogor-based rock band's latest singles collection Bring The Echoes, released digitally on June 24, is a youthful examination of paranoia, suicidal thoughts and inner stand-offs.
Despite what the music’s audience might assume, the band's stage moniker Sousade is not a cheeky wordplay of the English-language phrase "so sad".
"Many have thought so, but no, it's not," the band's guitarist, Nabil Hatomi, 24, clarified to The Jakarta Post on July 12 -- followed by a burst of rapturous laughter from his bandmates.
He explained, "Sousade was inspired by the studio where we hang out which is located in the southern part of Bogor -- a city that is famously known as the Rainy City. The 'sou' part was taken from the English-language word 'south' whereas the 'sade' part is a Finnish word which [also] means south."
Be that as it may, the Bogor-based rock band's latest singles collection, dramatically dubbed Bring The Echoes, is arguably their saddest musical offering to date -- the band's follow-up to its more exuberant 2020 debut EP, Double Live, Double Dream.
To make things more interesting, the sextet decided to both creatively and emotionally challenge themselves: by exploring a subject matter that, despite the changing times, is still considered relatively taboo in Indonesia.
