
Music worth listening to in different forms and genres emerges from across the Philippines all year round. Every month, CNN Life Philippines gathers a selection of fresh releases that serve as a diving board, launching you through what’s coming up in different music scenes.
Here is this month’s list of tracks for you to lend your ears to.
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“Tama Na Ang Drama” (2023 Deluxe Edition) by Ang Bandang Shirley
Ang Bandang Shirley, arguably the voice of a generation that cradled beers in Cubao X in the early 2010s, released a deluxe version of their 2012 sophomore album “Tama Na Ang Drama.” It adds extended and revamped versions of “Iyong” and “Di Na Babalik,” along with remixes of other album tracks by Modulogeek and Nights of Rizal. Music writer Aldus Santos calls it “more than a reimagining of (what I feel is) an important touchstone in Filipino indie,” which the various jangle pop bands inspired by Shirley in the years over the past decade would attest to.
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