Everything Is Fine (Filipino Indiepop Scene)
The fifth installment of our compilation series entitled, ‘Everything Is Fine (Filipino Indiepop Scene)’. A result of a collaborative effort between SEA Indie (Southeast Asia Indie) and Popscene Manila! The compilation features pure discoveries of 26 tracks from 26 Filipino indiepop outfits. As one of the region’s long-established indiepop scenes, a great number of Filipino bands have offered popkids worldwide the finest tunes of joy and happiness for decades, some were able to reach out internationally, while others remained as some of the scene’s best kept secrets. With this compilation, we hope it could help everyone get to know the scene and all the featured bands better.
A Christmas present to our global P!O!P! community. Hope you guys/gals like it. We’d appriciate if you could help us spread the word about it, share it with you friends or simply click on the share buttons above in support of the bands. And now it’s time to sit back, relax and enjoy!
Volume 1
01. ODILE ET FRANZ – la poesie intermede
02. Daydream Cycle – Christmas Is Here
03. Japsuki – Bitter, Sweeter
04. The Camerawalls – My Life’s Arithmetic Means
05. Spring Boutique - So Twee
06. Apple Orchard – Tomorrow Says Goodbye
07. Outerhope - Anna Gabrielle
08. Days Like Postcards – For a perfect time
09. DRESS - Wafture
10. Gentle Universe – Tree House Playroom
11. The Treblinka Love Scene – Missionaries On Rural Transit
12. Farewell Isobel - Under The Moon Lies
13. That Lingering Feeling – First LightVolume 2
01. Dream Carousel – No Matter What
02. Your Imaginary Friends – Hey, Rowena
03. Some Gorgeous Accident – Blush
04. The Gentle Isolation – I’ll Pocket You A Rainbow
05. Archaster – Oakwood Avenue
06. Slow Hello – Decidedly Weird
07. Slumbook – Luminous
08. Carnival Park – Lachrymose
09. Outcasts Of The Universe – One Little Bomb
10. The Wentletraps – Pure
11. CERUMENTRIC – An Analogue Embrace
12. Lazy Lorelei – Sunshine
13. Moscow Olympics – Keeping the Avenues OpenGet it for free here!
Whether it feels like forever ago or yesterday, you’re not wrong.
It lasted only a year, but the sheer amount of memories crammed into the Suck It And See era is staggering.
May 05, 2011 and May 18, 2012 are two days separated by entire lifetimes, but not separate at all.
That’s why, today at least, we’ll have such a hard time measuring the distance between Beginning and End.
Today they are one thing. Tomorrow, they were one thing:
Suck It And See
And so it ends. Thanks for the memories.
Much can be said about other eras. God knows there were better eras than this one, but there was a different kind of glow about Suck It And See. It was quite magical. It was fun and funny, it never took itself so seriously, it was exciting. It lived up to the promise of that ‘impending summer’ that Focus Creeps talked about when the first video—Brick By Brick—was released.
This entire year felt like one: a long summer spent with your four best friends who just know how to make you happy/excited—hear: the entire album & its bsides, the interviews; laugh too much—see: all of their ridiculousness from the hair, the trackie bottoms, the Vans, all that pointing and jumping; and also, cry—see: yourself now that it is all coming to a close.
It is, more importantly, a long summer spent with all these new people in your life, most of them you have just interacted with on the internet but you know they could just be some of your greatest friends. They are the ones who’ll stay up with you on Arctic Mondays to wait for a surprise, to scream and shout with you in the wee hours of the morning. They are the ones who you can spend hours with debating about the music, Alex’s new everything, Matt’s all-around cool, Nick’s neck beard, and the mystery behind Jamie. These are your people, the precious ones who get it completely. And they were with you in this year of summer, glowing, glowing, glow.
A few more hours and it is officially done. I wish I could do a better goodbye but for now, these words are all I have. This and thanks—to my favorite band for being who they are and doing what they do and continuously making music that soundtracks the best moments of our lives, and to every single one of you, 15 000 as of today, for being part of it. All of it. It has been nothing but wonderful.
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- Hold on to your hearts—April was the beginning of the end. We are mere weeks away from the end of SIAS and it’s starting to feel bittersweet. But cry not just yet, since we began the month with hints about the new era to come: anyone fancy Album V to sound like Evil Twin/R U Mine? Helders reckons that that’s where the band’s headed.
- After a stint in Lolla Chile, the boys carried on with their tour of the South Americas. They headed to Quilmes Rock, performing in front of thousands of eager Argentinians, but disappointing the rest of the world with a broken promise of a livestream because, what was that? They were filming something on their own? Start the speculations for a tour DVD.
- Oh then you know, there were those Arctic Monkeys dolls I’d rather not discuss.
Weird? Creepy? Funny?- And then… Lolla Brasil happened. Not only did we have a livestream of that beautiful gig, plans to work on Album V were revealed in a post-gig interview. Color. Us. Excited.
- The boys came back to the States to stir some madness in the west coast, starting with a stint on Conan performing R U Mine, before shaking things up at The Glass House.
- Then… we had Coachella. Two weekends of it. And a livestream. And an acoustic performance pre-show. And the Thunder Thief slaying the drums. And yet another antic courtesy of Turner— behold, Jumping Alex.
- And what good way to end a desert high and the month of April but with Record Store Day. Everyone scrambled for that beautiful purple vinyl. And a new tune (the last of this era, sniff) surfaced— Electricity. [HQ studio version + lyrics + Space Monkey art]
BONUS! ArcticMonkeysUS’s March Madness is coming to a close and the battle is between 505 vs. ACR. Vote now. Make it count. + download this era’s best live performances + watch this Arctic Monkeys ‘home video’ and try not to weep.
when it’s over me and my selfish ways
go back to start again
CIUDAD with our very own ERWIN “FLEX” HILAO performing DANCE LESSONS
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From the recent Q interview:
The elaborate pinky ring he now constantly wears, however, a silver, gold and ruby metal-goth corker featuring the words DEATH RAMPS is a permanent reminder of he and his best friends’ past. The Death Ramps is not only a Monkeys pseudonym and b-side to Teddy Picker, but a place they used to ride their bikes in Sheffield as kids.
“Up in the woods near where we lived,” he nods. “Just little hills. But when you’re eight years old they’re death ramps.”
this story… was visceral. it’s just got the ring of truth and you know this happened.
“Don’t forget your lid or your pen will go dry.” - somehow that sounded so poetic.
I used this word before to describe Suck It And See as an album. Seems like it’s how it is with the videos as well. Ahh, I get it now…
“Go!” | Santigold feat. Karen O
Master of My Make-Believe is streaming on NPR right now. RUN, DON’T WALK.
