American post-hardcore/shoegaze band Hundredth to perform in Manila

American post-hardcore/shoegaze band Hundredth to perform in Manila

by rick olivares

Filipino music fans will be treated to exciting American band Hundredth who reinvented themselves from a melodic hardcore punk band into one that ventured into the textured sonic shoegaze territory last 2017.

Hundredth will be performing in Manila this coming August 19 at the Kalawakan  Spacetime at Chino Roces Avenue, in Quezon City.

The South Carolina quartet began as a hardcore crew with an ear for melody. But with their release of their 2017 masterpiece titled, Rare, the band surprised both fans and critics with their shift to a more shoegaze sound while retaining an edginess to their music.

Hundredth isn’t the only band to make this shift to this style.

In 2012, Deftones released their seventh album, Koi No Yokan, that incorporated shoegazer and dream pop elements into their alternative metal sound top great acclaim.

Local band, Taken By Cars, known as a modern New Wave outfit, ventured into this lush sonic landscape with their album, Plagues, that was released a year ago. The result was a deeply introspective record that pushed the band forward.

It is the same with Hundredth who have suddenly opened themselves up into new frontiers. Like the Deftones, Hundredth don’t entirely forsake the heaviness and aggression that marked their first few years. Instead they wrapped it around the lush and effects laden intricacies that have made shoegaze relevant and alive again in the past five years.

For fans of this heavier shoegaze style, the Cheatahs, perform in a similar style.

Speaking of pushing the boundaries forward, Hundredth recently re-recorded Rare to celebrate its first anniversary release with an “ultrarare” recording where they replaced the guitars with synthesizers. And the songs – like a somber Depeche Mode or stripped down Joy Division -- sounded completely different.

And that’s what it is for Filipino music fans, a rare appearance by an indie great through the hardworking and envelope-pushing Sleeping Boy Collective that recently brought The Saddest Landscape and Metz to Manila.

Hundredth – vocalist and guitarist Chadwick Johnson, guitarist Alex Blackwell, bassist Andrew Minervini, and drummer Lee Hutchison – will give local hardcore acts a nugget or two to ponder as they have eschewed playing their old catalogue in live shows choosing to only perform material from Rare; their fourth album.

The American crew’s Southeast Asian tour will include stops in Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, and Singapore before hitting Manila. Opening for Hundredth for their Manila show are GYHT, Life//Last, Conformis, the Rave Tapes, and Legarda.

Tickets purchased online will fetch for P500 while those bought at the gate will cost P600.