From The Buildings’ next album HEAVEN IS A LONG EXHALE, out on June 6, 2021

The Buildings are
Mariah Reodica
Alyana Cabral
Kean Reformado
Dominic Zinampan

Recorded at Malabong Lababo
Produced by Kean Reformado
Released by Call and Response Records, JP

Facebook: http://facebook.com/thebuildingsph​​

LYRICS

Blink and you’ll miss it
I’m half flesh and code
When civilization loses composure
Where else is left to go?

There’s pre--
And there’s post--
Is that all?

When the stencil economy collapses,
Where does it fall?

Blink and you’ll miss it
Slept through another year
Social security and manicured lawns
Through a dusty window sheer

It’s not that my visions innate to me
Consist of what’s outside
I’ve been the kind to hedge my bets
Didn’t think that I’d be right

Flesh and Code

Currents
with a sample from Lucrecia R. Kasilag's Prelude Etnika (Edel Mark Bitao, guitar)
Composer: Mariah Reodica, Kean Reformado, Dominic Zinampan
Performers: The Buildings
Producer: Cultural Center of the Philippines
Recorded at Malabong Lababo Studios

Kasilag Cartography

Composer: Mariah Reodica, Kean Reformado, Dominic Zinampan
Performers: The Buildings
Producer: Cultural Center of the Philippines
Recorded at Malabong Lababo Studios

Sailing

Riptide

Room So Small (高松SANKO Sessions 2022)

Don't Cry at the Movies (高松SANKO Sessions 2022)

Different Shades Of Blue(高松SANKO Sessions 2022)

Heaven is a Long Exhale (高松SANKO Sessions 2022)

Manila's a Trap (高松SANKO Sessions 2022)

DOWNLOAD LINK: www.mediafire.com/download/v7yt2vn…he_Buildings.zip

Recorded at Kean's place! Thanks for cooking chicken fingers!
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MARIAH REODICA - VOX/GUITAR
@tommygnosis
ALY CABRAL - GUITAR/BASS
@herselftheelf
KEAN REFORMADO - DRUMS/CHEF
@kean-reformado

Art by touristwatches and holyskirts

today i saw your little ring hiding in the sand
i put in in a canary cup to put it in your hand
before you walked away 
your little crochet hat unraveled and you sang
that's why i'll never pass by lou's coffee shop
or speak of it again

woo!

you don't have to apologize because i don't write cards each year
there are some things i'll learn to accept
and some i'll learn to fear
so go walk away 
i'll pop some champagne 
bottoms up while i can
that's why i'll never pass by lou's coffee shop
or speak of it again

Lou's Coffee Shop (Demo)

DOOM!!!!!!!!! SQUAAAAAAAAAAD!!!!!!!! BY THE BUILDINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RECORDED AT KEAN'S PLACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To be on our upcoming EP, early 2015!

You were packing up your socks
With the jackets to match
And every little thread in tow
But you tore out every bow
And every sleeve in every hole
Leaving me with nothing but gold

And that was the last time I saw you

I used to be proud of you
But I don't think I can do it anymore

Someone's packing up our tables
And they tread down our halls
While you're sipping tambourines
From masculine walls
Would you rather take the exit
The entrance or what's between?

Or would you rather watch TV
While teenage riots run along the streets
Pretending that they're you and me

And that was the last time I saw you
(THAT WAS THE LAST TIME I SAW YOU)
Gazing down at your shoes
(GAZING DOWN AT YOUR SHOES HAHA)

I used to be proud of you
I used to be PROUUUUUUUD OF YOUUUUUUUUUUU
But I don't think that I can do it anymore

The Doom Squad (Demo)

Here's a track from our debut album, CELL-O-PHANE, which we're launching on April 16, 2016 at Mow's! Pre-order the PHYSICAL album now for P400 and get a free sticker, an instant free download of "Different Shades of Blue," and free admission to the Album Launch: https://www.facebook.com/events/1669477039998444/. Email us at thebuildingsph@gmail.com to place pre-orders.

Buy the DIGITAL album on our Bandcamp: https://thebuildingsph.bandcamp.com/album/cell-o-phane

Watch out for updates and new songs by following us on Twitter (twitter.com/thebuildingsph) and Facebook (www.facebook.com/thebuildingsph).

Recorded and Produced by The Buildings in association with Idioterne, Inc.
Lyrics by Mariah Reodica and Paolo Arciga

What am I to do when I want nothing new
And all I wanted was you in different shades of blue

But things don’t go that way
In every shade of grey
And I belong on this side of the sea

We’re tired and all we ever wanted
All we ever needed was to shed a bit of light

What am I to do when I can’t get through to you
Try to paint you off in black when you left me just with shades of blue

Different Shades of Blue (Album Version)

Here's a track from our debut album, CELL-O-PHANE, which we're launching on April 16, 2016 at Mow's! Pre-order the PHYSICAL album now for P400 and get a free sticker, an instant free download of "Different Shades of Blue," and free admission to the Album Launch: https://www.facebook.com/events/1669477039998444/. Email us at thebuildingsph@gmail.com to place pre-orders.

Buy the DIGITAL album on our Bandcamp: https://thebuildingsph.bandcamp.com/album/cell-o-phane

Watch out for updates and new songs by following us on Twitter (twitter.com/thebuildingsph) and Facebook (www.facebook.com/thebuildingsph).

Recorded and Produced by The Buildings in association with Idioterne, Inc.

You’re not the only one I’ve been absent from

And you go on about how what I figured out was wrong
Because it wasn’t part of your plan all along

Why do you make me feel so bad
If you want me to come back

All I know I wouldn’t ask of you what you wouldn’t do for me

So many streets and only one of me
We're drowning in a big city and there's only one of me

Manila's a Trap

Now playing on Jam88.3's Locals Only!

Recorded at Malabong Lababo, 2019
To be released on Middle Class Cigars' cassette reissue of our album CELL-O-PHANE 
Art: "Dangerous Discontent" by Mariano Batocabe

But my room's so small
that the headboard hits the ceiling
and I can't even stretch out my legs
What more room for someone else's pillow
on a single unmade bed

That's the problem when you get to specifics
I fixate on the small details
I forget the bigger picture
At least that's what my horoscope says

And I guess I don't believe in constellations
Seeing the future only gets you so far
All I need is rude warm blood in the night
And some shelter from the dark

But my room's so small
that the headboard hits the ceiling
and I can't even stretch out my legs
What more room for someone else's pillow
on a single unmade bed

[dom facemelting solo]

That's the problem when you get to specifics
I fixate on the small details
I forget the bigger picture
And I close the door instead


But my room's so small
that the headboard hits the ceiling
and I can't even stretch out my legs
What more room for someone else's pillow
on a single unmade bed

Room So Small (Big Version)

Lead single from The Buildings album "Heaven is a Long Exhale", coming out mid-2021

The Buildings are
Mariah Reodica
Alyana Cabral
Kean Reformado
Dominic Zinampan

Recorded at Malabong Lababo
Produced by Kean Reformado
Single cover art by Mariano Batocabe 

LYRICS

Ever had a meaningful bone in your body?
Ever had a thought worth the time in your brain?
Well I’ve been treading down the ceiling in search for an answer and all I found was spare change

Ever had the will to get up in the morning
Ever had to be someone else for a change
but the calendar’s been thinning
since then I’ve been blinking
8,070,321 times

Oh, how do I know?

Heaven is a long exhale
and I’m buying time

Ever lost a bitter sense of longing?
Ever left the chance of a lifetime alone?
Well I’ve been kicking it with a whistler with flesh for teeth
For forty days and forty nights 
It’s been a treat

But all good things have their end eventually
And the end of it all she turned to me and sang

“Heaven is a long exhale
and I’m buying time”

Ever had a symbolic gesture to live by?
Ever left the chance of a lifetime alone?
Well I’ve been scrubbing through the channels
In search of directions to a tunnel leading to the light

Oh, how do I know?

Heaven is a long exhale
and I’m buying time

Heaven is a Long Exhale

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One time, we played patintero on Guijo street, but instead of people trying to catch people, it was our bassist Dom* saving us from moderately slowly passing cars by aggressively pushing us off the road. Fortunately, because Dom risked life and limb to save us, there were no casualties. 

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MARIAH REODICA - VOX/GUITAR
soundcloud.com/mariahreodica
ALY CABRAL - GUITAR
soundcloud.com/herselftheelf
KEAN REFORMADO - DRUMS/CHEF
soundcloud.com/boxmoon
DOMINIC ZINAMPAN - BASS/GOOD LOOKS

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