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Psych Supergroup Mooner Debuts With a Stunning Music Video as Heavy, and Trippy, as Their Sound

Turn on, tune in, rock out.

Bandung's stoner rock supergroup Mooner recently bust onto the scene with the first music video single from their debut LP Tabiat. The song, "Ingkar," is an epic 70s-inspired slow-burn jam that establishes a pretty heavy groove before vocalist Marshella Safira goes all-in with a perfect high-pitched wail that makes the whole song sound like some lost relic you found in a crate of dusty vinyl.

"Ingkar," is a song about history, and how those in power have a tendency to rewrite our nation's history to serve their own purposes and brainwash the masses. The song obviously goes deeper than that, but even this surface-level reading should seem pretty familiar to everyone here in Indonesia.

The video is downright beautiful too. The camera follows a solitary figure cloaked in red as they wander through some stunning landscapes throughout Indonesia. Or at least I think it's all shot in Indonesia. I've honestly never seen anything like this before, so it could be Mars for all I know.

It's a bold statement from a band made up of some of the best people playing in Indonesia's rising psych rock/ hard rock revival, with Ada Rekti Yoweono (The Sigit), Pratama Kusuma Putra (Sigmun), Absar Lebeh (The Slave) and Marshella Safira (Sarasvati) all working together to recapture the sound of legendary acts like AKA, Panbers and of course Shark Move—whose album was just reissued alongside Tabiat.