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Siren Call


The band was called Sugar Hiccup and you probably never heard of them; not unless you were in or around Manila in the nineties. Five Years, a haunting three-minute track from their debut album Oracle, is filled with hums, moans, and shrieks. In fact the song has no decipherable lyrics except for one line towards the end (But he will never be back). I haven't listened to this record in maybe a decade, but I need to purge myself of bad thoughts, and songs like this has always done that for me.

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