{"id":453,"date":"2026-04-05T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/?p=453"},"modified":"2026-04-05T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T18:30:00","slug":"los-thuthanakas-waka-is-a-mellower-follow-up-to-last-years-surprise-pitchfork-favorite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/?p=453","title":{"rendered":"Los Thuthanaka\u2019s Wak\u2019a is a mellower follow-up to last year\u2019s surprise Pitchfork favorite"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover of Los Thuthunaka\u2019s Wak\u2019a featuring a cartoon moth, caterpillar, and eagle.\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Los Thuthunaka\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/los-thuthunaka-waka.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Los Thuthanaka basically came out of nowhere last year to capture <em>Pitchfork&#8217;s<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/features\/lists-and-guides\/best-albums-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">album of the year<\/a> with their <a href=\"https:\/\/losthuthanaka.bandcamp.com\/album\/los-thuthanaka-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">self-titled debut<\/a>. Because it wasn&#8217;t available on streaming, it largely flew under the radar. I honestly kind of forgot about it until <em>Pitchfork<\/em> gave it the number one spot in its year-end list. In retrospect, I&#8217;m not entirely sure how, though. <em>Los Thuthanaka<\/em> sounds like nothing else. It&#8217;s joyous, jagged, and sounds like it&#8217;s being blasted out of a broken Bluetooth speaker in your neighbor&#8217;s backyard &#8211; it&#8217;s glorious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The follow-up EP <a href=\"https:\/\/losthuthanaka.bandcamp.com\/album\/waka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Wak&#8217;a<\/em><\/a> turns down the tempo and smooths some of the sharper edges. It uses the same sound palette of blo \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/entertainment\/907174\/los-thuthanaka-waka-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Thuthanaka basically came out of nowhere last year to capture Pitchfork&#8217;s album of the year with their self-titled debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}