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The Bandung punk trio turn personal disappointment, collective frustration, and the strange weight of being young into an 11-track album that refuses to keep sadness neatly contained.
There is a particular kind of sadness that doesn’t simply pass.
It lingers. It settles into relationships, families, cities, and the way we look at the world around us. Sometimes it is personal, sometimes political, and often, as Dongker suggests on their sophomore album Melankolia Radikal, it is difficult to tell where one ends and the other begins.
Released on 28 August 2026, the new record finds the Bandung punk band digging into what they describe as “deep-rooted sadness”, turning an emotion that is often treated as something to overcome into something worth examining.
The album’s…