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Lovers Go, Lovers Come – Orange & Lemons’ First Digital Single in 10 Years!
December 2, 2017
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The highly anticipated new music from the recently reformed Filipino indie pop stalwarts Orange & Lemons.
Cover Art by Xiomara Glindmeyer.
The single is expected to appear in all digital stores and streaming sites worldwide on December 8 and is now available for pre-order on iTunes under Lilystars Records.
Dreamy sound scape, delicate vocals and lush guitar work over a driving rhythm section. Lovers Go, Lovers Come is reminiscent of the band’s early guitar pop sound with distinct refinements.
The reformed trio hails from the province of Bulacan and is now composed of guitarist and vocalist Clem Castro, bassist JM Del Mundo and drummer Ace Del Mundo. Active from 1999 to 2007, Orange & Lemons were able to release three exceptional and award-winning albums reaching gold and platinum status before a decade long hiatus. 2017 marks the year of their return to the music scene.
Lovers Go, Lovers Come is a prelude to their forthcoming project — the 15th Anniversary Re-Updated first album “Love in the Land of Rubber Shoes & Dirty Ice Cream” scheduled for release on February 2018 supported by a crowdfunding campaign via Pledgemusic. Pre-Order the album to get an advance copy of the single. For more info, follow this link: https://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/orangeandlemons
In time for the single release, the band will be touring the UAE with scheduled concerts in Dubai and Abu Dhabi on December 8 and 9 respectively. Details of their tour HERE.
Cover Art by Mark Villanueva
Put on the headphones. Turn up the volume. Hit ‘play’ and close your eyes. Let the groove fill your head. A little scrappy, a little edgy, and a whole lot of attitude. The Camerawalls are back with a new single, “Boys in the Backroom.”
Photo by Angelo Maniquis
When last we heard from these boys, they had embarked in the direction of lush, beautiful harmonies and visions of love in exotic lands with “Wanderlust” released in August of 2012. Lead singer Clem Castro’s vocals remain perfect, pure and precise as they were back then, but this time, there’s a no-nonsense mature coolness to his delivery that goes deeper than his shades and his rock-solid rhythm guitar. With a wickedly delightful descending chromatic chord progression, Castro’s guitar matches bassist Law Santiago’s hard-hitting foundation while new Camerawalls addition (but old high-school band mate to Castro who also played bass on his solo Dragonfly Collector album, “The World is Your Oyster”) Venj Gatmaitan’s wah-sounding guitar fills wanders unapologetically all over the riff. An electric organ completes the sound of the ‘60s on top of Bach Rudica’s crisp, creative drumming – The Stone Roses, The Doors, The Rolling Stones, Steppenwolf – it’s the leather pants-wearing, motorcycle diaries, magic carpet ride side of those butterfly-collar-filled flower child years. Gone are the twee peg-legged hipster Camerawalls. This new sound is big baggy blues and full of business. Catch and count all the literary references you can just for fun, and linger over the lyrics and the sly mysteries they hide.
Listeners can expect to hear more from The Camerawalls along this vein (think The Stone Roses or The Charlatans) as they prepare to release a new album before the end of 2017.
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