Love As Punishment

Love As Punishment is a home-listening and slow-dancing project from Medan, Indonesia, made up of Arick Ahong and Ais Marciano. The duo belong to the Medan collective Home-listening Plaza and also work in Jakarta. Their debut EP, Play The Hits, came out on Loide Records in August 2025. It has five reworks of songs by Indonesian artists including Kinder Bloomen and Subsonic Eye. The Kunang-kunang EP followed on 21 August 2026. In 2026 they played ZODIAC in South Jakarta, and they have dates in Bogor and Jakarta from October to December. They are signed to PLZ Make It Ruins.