Playlist Monsters

I’ve been writing much about Sponge Cola for the past few months. But we’ll dismiss for a while those ‘XGF’ stuff. It’s time for ‘Mahaba Pa Ang Gabi’, their latest offering from the latest album District.While being stuck on the band’s similar vein of tunes on the past mid-decade (particularly the first two albums) I feel a sudden surge of re-falling in love with the group. Admit it, the third one and beyond is quite mediocre. But with District, these guys seem to be back on the right track. ‘Mahaba pa..’, to the very least, is not as annoying as some of those self-titled Sponge Cola album and  Araw Oras Tagpuan tracks.

Up Dharma Down is set to release their comeback album Capacities in a few days armoured with a relatively dancey tune, ‘Turn It Well’, as the carrier single. This is a smart move as to the group detaching themselves from the usual weepy trend of tunes. Though, those ‘Tadhana’, ‘Oo’, and ‘Kaibigan’ days are very much appreciated. Btw, seeing them live for the first time during the Tanduay Rock Fest performing this gem proved that love-at-first-hear do exist.

After the phenomenal success of the smash hit ‘Sirena’ in collaboration with Ebe Dancel, Gloc 9 teams up with Billy Crawford this time for ‘Bakit Hindi’, a relatively weaker one on that line up of Gloc 9 golden opuses hitting the country by storm, one after the other. The single is simply not as interesting as the other ones. As expected, the lyrics is still well-written though the radio-friendly-appeal is quite missing, which of course, is not really a good thing. On a side note, MKNM just turned gold.