Baskara Putra is a man of many hats — between juggling his career as the frontman of Indonesian rock band .Feast to making dance pop records with Lomba Sihir to putting his songwriter name tag on full force as Hindia, it’s difficult to see when the man actually gets his break. When you listen to his yearning about the meaning of life, you sort of… get it.

In “Janji Palsu”, Hindia’s existential despair loses itself in all glitter but no glam production. The first single off his sophomore album Lagipula Hidup Akan Berakhir is a painful reduction of his fame and the self-loathing and existential questions that arises because of it. It fails to catch its breath in between the tangled, knotted moments that beg to be torn apart. When you do break them apart though, you can hear the ideas of what makes the track so convoluted in the first place: the loud but empty guitar riffs, the confusing moments towards the end as if he didn’t know how to end the track, the raging words of a man weary of his own wisdom: “Seringku berfantasi untuk bunuh diri / Agar kau merasa bеrsalah sampai mati,” he threatens but plainly. But what makes it such a snooze is that he’s never sounded more bored singing of his existential crisis. Hindia — an artist known to present the questions of his existence on the blackboard with upbeat synths and flowery words — sings and screams as if he has long overcome the dilemma. There’s no sense of urgency to it, only wallowing in the mud of confusion over and over again. But maybe that’s the whole point.

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