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View all search resultsLondon Calling: Elephant Kind moves to London, release new EP
The once-Jakarta-based indie pop outfit explores new avenues in making music while embracing a humble beginning abroad
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Starting anew - Elephant Kind's Bayu Adisapoetro (left), Bam Mastro (center) and Kevin Septanto might be away from Indonesia for the foreseeable future as they learn from and adapt to new grounds. (Courtesy of Liam Maxwell) (Personal collection/Courtesy of Liam Maxwell)
The once-Jakarta-based indie pop outfit explores new avenues in making music while embracing a humble new beginning abroad
In March 2022, musicians Bam Mastro, Bayu Adisapoetra and Kevin Septanto who comprise alternative/indie pop trio Elephant Kind found themselves back underneath the gray skies of London, months after braving a 10-hour festival held in the city in October 2021. This time, however, they were in it for the long haul.
While their fellow bands and musicians in Indonesia were going through the post-pandemic blessings and had finally started swimming again through the familiar waters of the local music industry, Elephant Kind chose to uproot itself and flew a thousand kilometers away to the northern hemisphere.
On March 31, the band finally released a much-anticipated new EP, Superblue, following singles “Rockstar” and “Love As,” which it released back in October 2022, and February 2023, respectively.
Mind the gap
When the music video for “Love As” was released on March 24, one could not help thinking about how much of a representation it was for the band in terms of their new start in a whole different continent.
In the video, the trio, all dressed in a slightly Derelicte-esque manner, catch a run-down old Victoria Line tube to make their way back to Earth, among pantheons of anthropocentric beings – some of which are quite Lovecraftian.
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