Rock and roll, as a genre that has always adapted to local contexts wherever it travels, finds a particularly vital home in the Philippines, where generations of creators have reimagined its core structures to speak to the specificities of their experiences, their communities, and their relationships to the global lineage of the form that first spread across continents in the mid-20th century. Within this rich, ongoing landscape of Filipino rock and roll sits Helpless, a sound that upholds the genre’s foundational commitments to raw, unfiltered creative expression while contributing to the unbroken chain of works that have established the Philippines as one of the most dynamic hubs for rock and roll outside of the form’s earliest North American and Western European origins.