| Jay Som / Anak Ko |
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| Album: | Anak Ko | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Jay Som | Added: | Sep 2019 | |
| Label: | Polyvinyl Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2019-09-09 | Pull Date: | 2019-11-11 |
| Week Ending: | Nov 10 | Nov 3 | Oct 27 | Oct 20 | Oct 13 | Oct 6 | Sep 29 | Sep 22 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | May 02, 2023: | Alien Hour Superbike | 4. | Jun 17, 2021: | The Library (rebroadcast from Sep 18, 2019) Tenderness | |
| 2. | Mar 31, 2022: | nearby galaxies Superbike | 5. | Jan 10, 2020: | KZSU Time Traveler Superbike | |
| 3. | Jun 24, 2021: | Magnetized Toner (rebroadcast from Oct 1, 2019) Devotion | 6. | Dec 05, 2019: | The Doghouse Tenderness |
| Album Review |
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| Super Chuck Reviewed 2019-09-06 | ||
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In case you missed it, Everybody Works was the brilliant and tender 2017 breakthrough for Jay Som. It traversed a bevy of genres and moods, putting Melina Mae Duterte’s songwriting, arrangement, performance, and production talents on display. This made for a dynamic if slightly scattershot album. It showed a wide palette (and some serious jams), but it left me hungry for a more unified work. Duterte's latest record, Anak Ko ("my child" in Tagalog), finds her at a much more stable place in her young career. Like her previous two records, Anak Ko is only a little over 30 minutes and goes down easily. Like: Palehound, Mitski, Stephen Steinbrink, early Mac DeMarco FCC: 1 Play: 2, 5, 6 1.If You Want It (3:13) Skulking riff and some quiet menace, the title track is an atmospheric lilt. 2.Superbike (3:53) Slow-building bridge, swelling reverb. 3.Peace Out (4:16) Brooding breakup song through and through. 4.Devotion (3:32) Pop-savvy sensibility in their casually addictive grooves. 5.Nighttime Drive (3:13) Guitars transform to a braided wash of violin, maracas, and drums at the end. 6.Tenderness (4:01) Sounds oddly like Prefab Sprout, like previous Jay Som records. 7.Anak Ko (3:38) Warm, inviting listen, but with lyrical darkness underneath to reveal itself. 8.Crown (4:38) Compact and punchy choruses with inky, moody bass and guitar. 9.Get Well (3:57) Shimmering bass groove giving way to rich rhythm guitar and weepy pedal steel. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | If You Want It | 5. | Nighttime Drive | |||
| 2. | Superbike | 6. | Tenderness | |||
| 3. | Peace Out | 7. | Anak Ko | |||
| 4. | Devotion | 8. | Crown | |||
| 9. | Get Well | |||||