Sweaters

Masayasu Kurimoto from Quince Records describes Sweaters as, "The brightest hope of guitar-pop bands from Indonesia. The guitar-layered sound and boyish vocals add more pop flavors to their musical characters.

"Sweaters was formed in 2000 in a suburb in West Jakarta, Indonesia. We have released one EP, Ordinary Girl EP, which was released by Marmalade Records-Indonesia.

Sweaters' songs were also released in three other compilations: Popshower (Quince Records-Japan), Guitar Sketch (Quince Records-Japan) and Delicatessen (Poptastic Records-Indonesia), and an full album titled "Written like Postcards"(Lovely Records-Indonesia, 2008). Written like Postcards were already distributed worldwide through Applecrumble Records-Japan, Fruit records-Singapore,and Germany.

Behind Sweaters' name, Merdi, the singer is also known as Diskoria, an Indonesia Pop quarter band. In mid 2000ish, the members was involved in some side projects, like Christ and Merdi was also played Sugarstar before the band was disbanded. And Zulner was joined Thedyingsirens until leave the band shortly after released Sketches of a Humming album. In 2005, the band decided to revamp the band name by taking off "The" on the band's name and officially begin as "Sweaters" by releasing "Written like postcards" album with the 3 members left (Christ, Merdi & Zulner). In 2015, Sweaters - Live in Esplanade-Singapore was released by Anoa Records.