JAKARTA: Sometimes, a record can make an unprecedented splash without so much as fanfare. This is what is happening with Doves, '25 on Blank Canvas, a mixtape that, in less than 48 hours since its digital release and without any prerelease campaign, managed to amass more than a million plays on Spotify alone.
And upon listening closely to what Baskara Putra has to say in this mixtape, he might have indeed managed to both capture and reflect the agony simmering in many Indonesians nowadays. After all, the past few months have not exactly been our country's finest hour.
