Yeah The Soft Moon is very unique, I think his sound is getting more industrial and experimental with each release. I prefer post-punk so some tracks are challenging for my ears but I’m glad he’s pushing the boundaries and doing his thing!

I had no idea this collab existed. Thank you Aussies for educating the rest of us 🙏

Loved Garbage when I was a 90s kid and I still love Garbage now. No Gods No Masters is an album that goes pretty hard and it’s a whole double album.

Totally discovered Garbage from playing Gran Turismo 2 😂

I live in Manila and there’s basically two seasons: hella rain vs no rain. We’re in the hella rain period. This is when all the typhoons, monsoons, storms, floods, etc. happen and it goes on from June to November.

So to commemorate the middle of the rainy season, here’s a live performance by Lola Amour performing “Raining in Manila”. I’m not familiar with them but the song is a little jazzy and all the dudes crammed in that bus are totally all in sync.

Youtube: Lola Amour performs “Raining in Manila”

Genius: English translation

THIS SONG NEVER AGES I will stan Ladytron forever

oh lmao “nine nine nine emergency” is the chorus to Girlschool’s Emergency. Silly British musicians feeling obligated to use the actual emergency number.

I’ve never heard of 999 before, this is a great track! It has more melody than I was expecting.

Boy this is a lot. Are there ones you personally listen to?

Needles In The Camel’s Eye by Brian Eno

Elements of this sounds extremely early 90s alternative to me. He was so ahead of his time.

Why did a Girlschool song start playing in my head? 🤔

The Arcade Fire’s Haiti

https://youtu.be/tGvpUgo7ayY Controversies with members of the band aside, this song makes me cry every time. I have no connection to Haiti but the poignant vocals really pulls at your heart strings and makes you mourn for a lost homeland. The French lines really help too.

Nope it’s English, it’s an Irish-Filipino production. Most of it is filmed in Ireland and there are some flashback scenes in the Philippines but they’re subtitled.

I like the movie, it goes in really surprising places. I haven’t seen another English-language horror movie covering global south labour exploitation so it deffo gets bonus points for that one.

Yup I’m from Manila. There is a dreampop/shoegaze scene here but unfortunately I’m out of the loop so I’m the wrong person to ask. If you’re curious, Furiosa organizes a lot of Filipino shoegaze shows. They’re furiosasound on both IG and FB. In one show I remember watching Sleepwalk Circus. https://youtu.be/FTCQbYRuRnc

Ben & Ben is a more mainstream folk rock band but I like some of their songs, especially their collaborations. https://youtu.be/lajkFB4Zeug Lunod is about drowning (whether it be debt, depression, etc) while being invalidated by the people around you.

https://youtu.be/yaGmwtpOyV0 Kapangyarihan (power) was an anti-Marcos song. There’s a lyric video with English translations. But yeah the M/V links the deaths during the martial law era to Duterte’s drug war and Marcos carries on that unfortunate torch. When Marcos won, I was furious and I played this song on loop.

Locally Ben & Ben is more known for their unrequited love songs, which locals eat up. They’ve done a few international tours and I think they’re deffo a group to keep an eye out on.

I’m a massive sucker for dark post-punk and anything goth-adjacent, so I like The Late Isabel, but they haven’t been active for a while. https://youtu.be/l0wpvbO26Go

Aw I didn’t know they split up :( I’m glad I managed to see them in Manila a few years back.