What’s in someone’s mother tongue? The difference leaps in The Mellow Dees’ Filipino rendering of previous single “Amber Alert” from two weeks back. Surprise, no surprise: there’s inherent musicality in languages. Songs aren’t like Netflix movies; you can’t subtitle them and expect to leave a ballpark-mirror message. Song translations often sound reaching, for better or [...]
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The Mellow Dees are Back with (Surprise!) Alt-Rock Revival Single
The new Mellow Dees single is driving music with early-aughts pop-punk ballast and New Wave melodiousness. Not to be missed. The new outing from The Mellow Dees is an about-face from the baroque-kundiman leanings of their debut (“Lamán”). And I don’t need to be telling you this, but that’s a damn good thing. The last [...]