band from manila, philippines.

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BEE EYES

Personnel: Diego Abad, 26 (bass); Julius Valledor, 26 (vocals); Idris Vicuña, 21 (lead guitar); Iann Villamor, 28 (drums)

Sounds Like: Think lo-fi pop the likes of Wavves, Girls, and Ariel Pink would all approve of. “We listen to a lot of bedroom bands so that kind of inspired our sound, I guess,” says Valledor. “We couldn’t really afford awesome equipment but we sound like shit. It’s not really a choice. It’s more of what we have.”

Origins & Beyond: Bee Eyes was formed in 2008 but they’ve been playing since 2006 under the name Love Team. They built their earliest live sets around a heavier sound, something they eventually tired of. “We were noisy, rock ‘n’ roll, garage whatever, and we didn’t give a f**k,” adds Valledor. “And everyone liked us for that but we got sick of it because we were always out of tune. (Laughs) We used to look like this drunk-ass band that people didn’t appreciate for the music, but for us being rowdy and crazy. I guess we were listening to a lot of Black Lips at that time and we saw how their live show was. We wanted to have that much fun and be drunk a-holes onstage but it wasn’t really working for us musically. So we decided to tighten up and be a little more melodic.” Abad seems to agree: “In a way, we wanted to challenge ourselves. We tried recording a few songs. That was hard.” “I guess the main motivation for all this was we wanted to make some money,” admits Valledor, to which his whole band laughs for at least the next six seconds of the interview.

Bee Eyes - DEMOS - 02 Double Sunrise

With influences as far-ranging as hardcore to hip-hop to classic Filipino love songs, the garage pop outfit Bee Eyes is slanging sunny lo-fi jams left and right, a melting pot of not-quite-soul and not-quite-surf, but a sound all their own. Bee Eyes hails from Metro Manila, where they incarnated i......

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