About This Album
The choice to align an artist’s creative identity with the title of their full-length album, a choice that anchors This Band, carries a longstanding weight within global rock and roll, and for the Filipino act behind this record, that choice taps into a rich, decades-long tradition of Philippine rock acts using self-titled projects to declare their artistic purpose to audiences near and far. The Philippines’ rock and roll community has long been one of the most vibrant and engaged in Southeast Asia, nurtured by a network of local venues, independent creative circles, and cross-regional collaborations that have allowed acts to experiment with the core foundations of the genre while rooting their work in the specific cultural, social, and artistic contexts that shape life across the Philippine archipelago.
