gtara emerges as a sharp, vivid entry in Filipino pop, rooted in the boundary-pushing creative legacy of UDD, the electronic trio of Paul Yap, Carlos Tañada, and Ean Mayor. Long celebrated as one of the most ambitious acts to emerge from Manila’s thriving, multifaceted music scene, UDD earned a landmark nod from Mark Coles of BBC Radio, who dubbed the group “the Manila band most likely to cross over to the lucrative Anglophone market of North America”—a testament to the widespread, cross-cultural appeal of their work, which has resonated far beyond their home country’s borders to amass over 300 million streams on Spotify to date.