THE L4M3
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Evangalical, existentialist and weird all at once.
The L4M3 is an experimental bedroom pop project exploring themes of faith with philosophy and counterculture. The project is a collaboration between two opposite siblings.
The Seeker (vocalist/guitarist/musical direction) had a background visiting his art/attitude mentor Rob Equiza's gigs when he was 17 and has also known some punk rockers before he even started attending gigs. He learned how to write melodies by participating in the school choir for a couple years and also started loving philosophy because of his social studies teacher back in 10th grade. But at the same time he has always had a counterculture soul and also a love for superheroes and working out like one. His influences include Brian Eno, Paul McCartney, The Velvet Underground, and the New York "no wave" avant-garde scene, but he has also love for Kendrick Lamar, Lorde, Deftones and a bit of the ethnic Filipino music that he finds online.
Belle (keyboard, vocals, art direction),had taken piano and vocal lessons as a kid. She had continued singing as a hobby through the school choir. Later on, it manifested through karaoke and leisurely moments. She might be a typical girl who loves Taylor Swift and K-Pop but a side of her listens to Avril Lavigne, Billy Joel, Sunset Rollercoaster, and a lot of indie pop. In short, Belle is moody when it comes to music.
Their non-musical influences on the other hand include philosophy, faith and superheroes. This is the point of The L4M3 in the first place: to promote a new, countercultural breed of faith-centred music. The project is also inspired by Gorillaz in terms of universe-building.
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DISCOGRAPHY
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songs of shoshin
EP, 2024
1 streams
2 green pastures
3 song of the earth
4 in circles
5 wanderer
6 straw hat kendrick
7 an unexamined life
4nima
Album, 2023
Self-Released
1 almost_Jim / the gateway experience to highly successful people
2 a song i wrote and recorded at 17 years old - misterfunnybones reanimation (feat. Anarka Akaza and Rob Equiza)
3 bad trips
4 c'est la vie
5 cbt
6 freakbeats
7 gold-plated
8 hay, lumbay
9 jazmine says
10 kwaderno
11 networxx
12 no changes (rules everything around me)
13 ooga booga (feat. Anarka Akaza)
14 radio-friendly pop song
15 robot reggae
16 sleep john doe
17 sludgecat (feat. Lawrence Anthony)
18 songs of praise
19 stop dance (jaywalk joe)
20 the ride
21 the valley
22 them
23 torpe song
24 untitled #1
25 Voice 015 (emo)
26 west coast beat
27 zombified darlings - remix
balikbayan sound box or the sound of bob aves goin’ thru a punk phase
Album, 2022
1 a walt disney slasher, pt.1
2 kundiman in english major
3 fillydilly (feat. Anarka Akaza)
4 the crowning of the carnival queen (feat. Anarka Akaza)
5 devil devil
6 a walt disney slasher, pt.2
7 downtown funk
8 escapist escapade (feat. Anarka Akaza)
9 A song i wrote and recorded at 14 yrs old
10 drone song
11 tito weng
12 oh my aurora (feat. Ali Aldaba)
13 nochebuena (harana de akash)
14 sigmund fraud 1
15 metro muscles blues
16 sigmund fraud 9 (dance macabre)
17 untitled
18 the metamodern age (feat. Faith Horror)
19 happily
20 home i'll never be (feat. Anarka Akaza)
tropical gothic or post-bedroom pop (or whatever the hell you wanna call it)
Album, 2021
1 sigmund fraud (feat. the duckrxbits, Anarka Akaza)
2 hannibal kardashian (tropical gothic rework) [feat. Darl Alba]
3 vortex symphony
4 nochebuena (the revolution)
5 chaos theory (feat. Anarka Akaza)
6 the fool (feat. the duckrxbbits)
7 crimethink (you stand accused) [feat. Juan Paloo]
8 pendulum
9 psychoactive mess (feat. the duckrxbbits)
misterfunnybones
Single, 2019