Feeling Ache
There is a band named Ache and that’s all I need to feel.
For all the shitheads who don’t know Ache, congrats you’re so fucked. Seriously, what are you doing back there? It makes me sad to think that you’re wasting time on shitty Jakcloth bands instead of checking this band out. You know, these dudes are already on VICE Indonesia, and I guess they are very big in educated and cultured millennial circles. So before they’re super famous hanging out with Dipha Barus and Kelly Tandiono or somebody writes some academic paper on them, here is what I feel on Ache recent success.
I first heard the band when Rizkan, the most handsome member of Ache, sent the demo and it took me totally by surprise. It was immediately obvious that I think this band didn’t make kind of music that I hear everyday in the listenable scene. It doesn’t sound emo like Beeswax or Eleventwelfth, nor pop-punk like Write The Future. It’s a new music that could make you really feel the feelings in static age we live in when you’re supposed to feel nothing, not even feeling that you’re whole life is messed up.
And that’s what I got it. I felt something. I was recently off for a while, trying to get the shit together but you know I blew up every chance that I got. No money, no career and stuck in between situation where you have no control on it. I listened couple times in row to “New Interest: Archery” from Ache. I guess it’s a song about people who want to make a better living but wind up miserable and being lame. Yeah, sounds a lot like me. But I don’t know for sure with the story, only Rizkan knew it. But it’s really related to me. Surely when this one comes on, I can think without a shame that Ache is the best fucking real band in the real world, either flat or globe. (Sorry, Jeff Rosenstock.)
Not only that one song, all lyrics on their debut EP obviously applied to my life in this worst moment. From feeling lost and fears in your whole life, living in a shithole when the world turned to be hellhole, up to dealing with asshole like Larry, everything is my tiny personal protest to everything I HATE. Then, if you’re really saying I’m tired as hell kind of things, fucking a, listen to Ache, they are capturing your feelings.
Now, if you’re wondering what music they play or what is the roots, I can’t give you 100% correct answer. I’m too dumb for that. But from not-so-bright brain of mine, music wise I think Ache play indie punk, contains every good parts of punk, emo, and indie rock bands. Because, still from the same cells brain, for me, it’s too indie rock to call it like Jawbreaker and Alkaline Trio or too punk to be like The Weakerthans and Jimmy Eat World and too sad to feel like the Promise Ring. That is just how my stupid brain works.
But the band put it in a perfect goof way “desperate Jawbreaker cover band who listen a lot to The Weakerthans.” I guess we can take it. So, listen to the whole EP here or check it on Tsefula/Tsefuelha Records, Ache is strongly gonna rip a new asshole into everyone. Wait. That sounded not okay.
(Please note: honestly it was my first time reading VICE, words cannot express this beautiful moment and I’d be like 5% smarter than before. Please do coverage little band like Ache more, so I could read more and be fucking Einstein and have guts to write some way better quality articles for you in the future.)
