R&B’s cross-continental evolution has long turned regional creative iterations of the genre into vital contributions to its global legacy, with scenes across the world reshaping the form’s core to hold the specific perspectives, histories, and creative preoccupations of their creators. This legacy of adaptation and expansion is what grounds the sound Nightmare, a work that emerges from the Philippines’ thriving, interconnected community of R&B creators, who have spent decades turning the genre into a space for both reverent engagement with its roots and radical innovation that speaks to their unique geographic and cultural position.