Since the commercial success of the tiny pop punk megastars in our small but evidently lucrative music scene, it has seemed that all it took to make it as an indie musician here that actually make fairly big bucks by being an indie musician, are a couple of power chords and cheesy lyrics sang in your best mimicry of a proven act. This year though, were glad to have found Busco. Previously known as Bus Company, the five creative and marketable-but-serious musicians whom upon joining the leagues of corporate favourites, relieves us from too much cringing. And to be honest, gives it some respectable musicianship and creativity too. Part faux indie in some bits of their track-list (check the song Deep Breath with its Gibbard-ish vocals and electronic generated melodies), part pop-punk/emo and some bits edgy, new age metal-ish pop rock ala Incubus, Buscos got the type of sound that surely has the potential to engage a vast majority of young music lovers. Whats great about this band is that, wide appeal isnt merely their only strength. The guitar licks by guitarists Samuel Oh and Shaun Xavier are pretty smooth. The drum patterns by drummer / multi-instrumentalist Darren Ashley (whos got some compositions himself as a solo act) are creative and accentuates his buddies parts pretty neatly. Solid basslines from bassist Larry Chew and some electronic fun injected by midi programs man, Eugene Goh. Head over to their Facebook page for the tracks theyve got on there and for updates in their extensive upcoming gigs list.

The Wknd Sessions

#42 Busco

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Fikri Fadzil, Ali Johan
Camera & Lighting
Fikri Fadzil, Akashdeep Singh,
Adely Adnan, Didi Ramlan
Editing
Fikri Fadzil
Web
Adam William
Sound
Hardesh Singh

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Since the commercial success of the tiny pop punk megastars in our small but evidently lucrative music scene, it has seemed that all it took to make it as an indie musician here that actually make fairly big bucks by being an indie musician, are a couple of power chords and cheesy lyrics sang in your best mimicry of a proven act. This year though, were glad to have found Busco. Previously known as Bus Company, the five creative and marketable-but-serious musicians whom upon joining the leagues of corporate favourites, relieves us from too much cringing. And to be honest, gives it some respectable musicianship and creativity too.

Part faux indie in some bits of their track-list (check the song Deep Breath with its Gibbard-ish vocals and electronic generated melodies), part pop-punk/emo and some bits edgy, new age metal-ish pop rock ala Incubus, Buscos got the type of sound that surely has the potential to engage a vast majority of young music lovers.

Whats great about this band is that, wide appeal isnt merely their only strength. The guitar licks by guitarists Samuel Oh and Shaun Xavier are pretty smooth. The drum patterns by drummer / multi-instrumentalist Darren Ashley (whos got some compositions himself as a solo act) are creative and accentuates his buddies parts pretty neatly. Solid basslines from bassist Larry Chew and some electronic fun injected by midi programs man, Eugene Goh.

Head over to their Facebook page for the tracks theyve got on there and for updates in their extensive upcoming gigs list.

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