I feel like a moving target whenever I say I greatly prefer Echo & the Bunnymen over The Cure BUT I can't help it, their kind of 80s post-punk neopsychedelia is so good. Love all their albums from Crocodiles to self-titled, although I need to check out their later stuff.

I found Lemmy because I learned I could crosspost my relevant Mastodon posts to a Lemmy community. That's an easier way to get more posts, because I can get engagement from either Mastodon or Lemmy and it doesn't feel like I'm posting on a dead forum just to be forgotten about. Also I find myself checking up on that Lemmy community directly to see what other people are posting, because viewing the content from Mastodon is too messy.

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.