SB19, the Philippines-based creative force behind the work titled Everblack, crafts a sound that defies the kind of narrow, standardized genre categorization that structures most modern music archives, landing in the flexible, all-encompassing Music/Other/Other classification that holds work that refuses to be boxed into the pre-defined categories used to sort most commercially distributed music. This positioning, which pairs the group’s rooted origin in the Philippines’ vibrant, multifaceted music landscape with a cataloging choice that sets Everblack apart from the vast majority of sounds that receive formal industry classification, creates a rare framework that rejects the assumptions that often come with assigning a sound to pop, rock, hip-hop, or any of the dozens of other widely used genre labels.