Local Happiest Reveals Office Workers' Unrest In Uniform Rotation

Happiest Lokal (Instagram @HappiestLokal)

JAKARTA - The garage rock troop from Jakarta, Happiest Lokal released a new single, entitled Rotasi Uniform via the independent label Sirkus Records.

This song is based on the anxiety of being a nine to five worker in Jakarta. Tells the life cycle of employees who are always the same every day, who at first were proud to enter a well-known company, but ended up with many problems due to material needs.

"I am also a part of the uniform rotation wave itself. What else can I do, still have to survive, right? Even though when I was a student, I never thought of being an employee. I used to think that I just wanted to be a band member until I died, but in the end I felt stuck! "

The vocalist as well as the guitarist of Happiest Lokal, Rio Lazuardo

"(I) Lack of gas, I need new resources, because my parents can't help me with my career needs in music anymore, so I just work so I can get into music again. The ambition of the city is like that, the people are like that. , I always need something new. And everything must be pursued in a hurry. That's what I feel, I don't know about the others, "he said.

The single song Uniform Rotation is a series of Happiest Lokal singles last to the first album which will be coming at a later date. Previously, they had released a single titled Orang Gila, Kereta Cepat, and Toni, Margi !.

"We have released 4 singles, so about the first album of Happiest Lokal, the material and sound are like the last 2 singles. We have prepared 8 songs to record and a total of 10 songs or maybe more. so that the debut album of Happiest Lokal will be released soon. We should have recorded yesterday, because of the COVID-19 so we will postpone it, "Rio continued.

The music video for Uniform Rotation was produced by Allan Sinema Pinggiran. With the theme of collage art, it shows the character of Happiest Lokal which is influenced by alternative bands in the 2000s.

Happiest Lokal was formed in late 2015 in front of the mading (wall magazine) of a University in Depok. Until now, the band still consists of Rio Lazuardo (vocals, guitar), Regi Apriadi (vocals, guitar), Ivan Wirawan (bass), Ferdinand (drums).

Happiest Lokal's music was inspired by their previous garage rock bands to the 2000s garage rock revival / alternative wave. The themes of the lyrics conveyed revolve around what is happening around them.