Agura Matra - Die With You (2016) EN

Hardly ever do I reach so distant musical areas as Indonesia. Which is a mistake. It's a country with a good number of alternative projects (e.g. this week I listen to the debute EP by Annie Hall). Another example is Agung Rama Putra known as Agura Matra who describes his job in a simple way - "I manipulate sounds". And he knows what he does.

Lively backgrounds of almost dance-like samples wonderfully contrast with melancholic, dreampop vocal. It sounds best in "Good Night" in which great airy keys play their role too, or in, perhaps the best track of the album, "Daggers and Horns" where everything matches everything as if it never were separate sounds. The album is filled with aspiring hits up to the end ("Good Night", "Die With You"!) with all of them equipped with heavy church- or even funeral-like keys that build the melodies.

"Die With You" is available for 3 USD.

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