FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEPANTAYO ANNOUNCE SOPHOMORE LP ANG PAGDALOYSHARE FIRST SINGLE “ONE MORE LATCH (GIVE IT TO ‘YA)”
OUT VIA TELEPHONE EXPLOSION RECORDS JUNE 9TH

credit: Felice Trinidad“deconstructing Filipino kulintang music with a punk sensibility and gorgeous synth pop melodies.”- Consequence“Blending atonal traditional percussion, electronic production, and Western influences including
synth-pop, R&B, and punk, these eight tracks are joyful, resilient, and wholly contemporary.“- Pitchfork“Pantayo is a sampler of the sound of the Filipino diaspora, and a field guide to finding defiant
happiness even (or especially) as the world burns.”- Bandcamp
Toronto’s Pantayo is announcing their sophomore record Ang Pagdaloy today. Following up theirself-titled 2020 release, which saw Pantayo short-listed for the Polaris prize, and featured at Pitchfork,AllMusic, Consequence, them., Bandcamp, and more. The band is a queer and diasporic Filipino
collective based in Toronto. Initially scaled up from a self-directed workshop to a live performance inorder to contribute to an advocacy event for Indigenous Filipino migrants and a conference on queer

intimacies, the quintet of Eirene Cloma, Michelle Cruz, Joanna Delos Reyes, Kat Estacio, and Katrina
Estacio find a satisfying resolution by reinventing their relationship to the traditional kulintang
ensemble instruments, indigenous to the islands known as Mindanao, that provide the foundation for
their unmistakable and unyielding sound. The first taste of their new album, “One More Latch (Give ItTo ‘Ya)” is an utterly mesmerizing melding of kulintang, R&B, pop, and electronic influences.
Pantayo’s first single serves as a means to reclaim sexuality, desire, and intimacy from the clutch ofpatriarchal white supremacy and to explore the depths of those feelings, and the freedom toexperience them, without the specters of fetishization and objectification. The album was produced
and engineered by alaska B of Yamantaka // Sonic Titan. You can read more on the single below andlisten to, and watch, the single alongside a visualizer created by Omar Rivero (Driftnote) withelements of their album artwork created by Em Esquivel.
LISTEN/WATCH: “One More Latch (Give It To ‘Ya)”
Speaking to the single Toronto-based filmmaker and Pantayo collaborator Tricia Hagoriles says; "Withthe visceral use of only gongs, drums and vocals, One More Latch (Give It To ‘Ya) feels like anhomage to women musicians in the 90s that wrote or performed songs about their own sexual desires(ie. TLC’s Creep and Janet Jackson’s That’s the Way Love Goes). Which, for an all-women Filipina
band near-explicitly, expressing sexual desire, is a point of subversion in itself.
Overt sexualization and fetishization that is grounded in white supremacist, racist, sexist, and classist
objectification has always had a taxing effect on Asian women. For Filipinas in Canada and otherdiasporic communities, the experience trickles into their daily lives in specific ways; genderedmarginalization due to labor (ie. caregiving), occupying the lowest rungs of the socioeconomic ladder,
hypervisibility in occupations such as nurse or nanny, and mail order brides in the 1980s. And when
you consider Queer spaces, the Filipina can be rendered invisible. As objects of desire and imposed
tropes under a white supremacist gaze, Filipinas are seen as powerless and disposable.
One More Latch (Give It To ‘Ya) IS a BOP of a hookup song, but it’s also a reclamation of desire. AsPantayo speaks about the writing process, the song came from an unabashedly lusty place. The songand the video will be about owning carnal instincts, overcoming the shame of wanting and beingwanted, redefining desirability and sensuality beyond a physical and one-sided realm."
What tools can we call upon to access the parts of our experience that the human voice can’t fully
articulate? What previously unknown revelations bubble to the surface when the separation between
human, machinic, and organic textures collapse? The spellbinding Toronto-based outfit Pantayo(Eirene Cloma, Michelle Cruz, Joanna Delos Reyes, Kat Estacio, and Katrina Estacio) find a satisfying
resolution by reinventing their relationship to the traditional kulintang ensemble instruments,
indigenous to the islands known as Mindanao, that provide the foundation for their unmistakable andunyielding sound. On their sophomore record Ang Pagdaloy, the Polaris-shortlisted group givethemselves permission to dive into an appreciation for the music they discovered growing up—searing, minimal R&B; heaving drone metal; airy 90s guitar-driven rock, and gauzy, alt-country
balladry. In the process, they build into their sonic landscape a constellation of somatic and aural
influences, like the low-belly simmer of an unresolved crush or the metallic cacophony of the carts
from early morning bottle collectors in Manila. At its core, Ang Pagdaloy is an intricately constructedcollage that rejects narrow definitions, and instead, mirrors the properties of water — taking inspirationfrom its shape-shifting elements, devotion to organic paths of least resistance, and desire to to let goand flow.

Ang Pagdaloy LP Artwork
Credit: Em Esquivel
Ang Pagdaloy Tracklist:
1. One More Latch (Give It To 'Ya)
2. Dreams
3. Bakal Bote
4. Must've Been A Fool
5. Mali
6. Sapa(n)ahon
7. Masanguanan
8. Bastá—Pantayo - Twitter - Instagram - Bandcamp - Facebook
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