HDLSS Asks “What Comes Next?” – AdHoc

HDLSS Asks “What Comes Next?”

Today, AdHoc is premiering HDLSS‘s newest track “What Comes Next” from their forthcoming LP, Selections from DUMB, out 8/4. The track tackles minority othering, American secularism/anti-religiosity, and political/artistic responsibility. Masquerading as a dance song, the song’s driving beat is clearly capable of moving one’s body, but the HDLSS’s lyrics are focused far more on moving one’s mind. HDLSS’s Fareed Sajan had this to say on the track:

“This song was born out of the incongruity of your insides not matching your outsides. That universal feeling that the way you look does not represent who you actually are. As a brown person, stereotypes have always followed me, and now, when Muslims are being demonized every day, it is even harder to escape. Hindus are perceived as Muslims. All Muslims are perceived on the same axis as extremists. Nuances get lost. It’s an issue any minority confronts, where an individual is forced to represent a swath of people, the Other, since most people do not know many South Asian, Latino, Black, LGBTQ etc. people… This puts people who have critiques of their own culture in a precarious position. And what does this do to a person within a faith who has doubts, or is still developing a faith, yet at the same time they are perceived to be a spokesperson? How does that affect his/her natural spiritual development? ‘What Comes Next?’ addresses that question by taking the perspective of someone grappling with being born into Islam, and fighting to understand religion in a nihilistic/narcissistic/consumer driven society.”

HDLSS plays with KUČKA and Qualiatik on 7/29 at Baby’s All Right.

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