With You, I’d be Closer to God - audio and visual out now
So stoked this one is finally out. I made this song during a hard season, clinging to the last threads of hope I had. Putting it out feels like releasing a weight I didn’t realize I was still carrying. I had this one on my setlist last year during the Miracle Mile and COAO tours, and I hope to take it back on the road post-release at some point this year. You all had such lovely things to say about this song in particular.. someone even called it “emotronica” music, which I’m very much here for.
Video by @metals.us & @electaporado
Song mixed and mastered by @theo.karon
Released by @handwrittenrecords
As always, thanks to @rasheedtulay@tooearlyshak@thanksfortheluck
The Folkhouse has been out now for like 3 days
Idk seems like enough time to give it a full listen. Tell me what you think. Positives, negatives. And if you’re only negative is that it’s too short, run it back a few more times and then go listen to one of the 5+ other EPs I’ve released these past few years! Pls. :)
The Folkhouse
Directors: Metals & Electa Porado
Production & Post Production: Metals
Cinematography: Eddie Mandell, Chase Shewbridge & Electa Porado
Costume & Production Design: Electa Porado
Culpeper, VA Production Crew: Troy Kern, Heather Fellows, Scott Fellows & Candie Revette
Filmed on Location in Fredericksburg, VA, Spotsylvania, VA, Culpeper, VA, Woodbridge, VA, Stevensburg, VA, Stafford, VA, Washington, DC & Silver Spring, MD
My album, The Folkhouse, drops tmrw night and I have an insane amount of gratitude for everyone involved and everyone who has presaved the release, RSVP’d to the show, listened any of the singles, bought a piece merch…… literally every one of yall who have shown any form of support in my career.
Along with the album dropping, I have a long video to accompany the release - here are some stills :)
THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE, IT MEANS A LOT
A house doesn’t feel like home without people in it.
The Folkhouse release celebration next friday…
special live performance with friends.
pull up, it’s free 🤍
more info soon :)
rsvp link in bio!
Flyer by @andrewreyes
Dying to hit the road again. What cities wanna see me? Who wanna take me on tourrrrr?
Photos by @xmaxinealo from Vday2025, opening for King Woman w/ Purest Form 🤍
The Folkhouse (album):
Final single “Hurry, Grin” out on April 3
Full album coming in May
This album lives in the blur between distorted memory and my own life. Stories my father told me about foggy, smoke-filled bar rooms in a misty Philippine mountain and the culture around them began echoing into my own experiences decades later. The album sits in that strange overlap where inherited memory and lived reality start to feel like the same story.
Creative Direction & Photography: @metals.us
Production Design & Costume Design: @electaporado
Mixed & Mastered: @theo.karon
Releasing with @handwrittenrecords
And cared for by @thanksfortheluck@rasheedtulay@tooearlyshak
