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Couple

City of Origin: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Period of Activity: Mid-90s to present

Members: Ariana Adnan, Izzat Ezzat, Mohd. Aidil Rusli, Firdaus Zainuddin, Hana Abdul Aziz (former), Ihsan Ariffin (former), Ojoe Azizul (former), Shahrin Ismail (former), Awang Masrin (former)

Related Artists: None that I know of

Discography:

• Telegrams from the Heart EP (2001)
• Top of the Pops (2006)
• Teenage Disc Fantastic (2008)
• Pop Tak Masuk Radio (2010)
• Poptimism (2022)
• Demo Kenal Bare: The Early Years 1995-2005 (2025, compilation)

Social Media: Bandcamp | Instagram

This one's kind of an edge case for belonging on this site. Of the songs I've heard, half of them sound more like the Strokes than anything else? But honestly, seeing that their early years compilation has a cover paying homage to one of Heavenly's compilations was enough to put them over the edge for me. When they're not sounding like the Strokes, they're doing power pop in a semi-Merseybeat kind of way? So basically, if you think Please Please Me and A Hard Day's Night are underrated in the Beatles' discography, Couple is a band you need to hear.