Philippines is where the anger is: massive corruption, oppressive US trade laws, 70 million people living in absolute poverty. While mainstream rock acts from the US and Europe may have little to sing or write about politics, the Rubberduckies’ music encompass life in the Third World as a function of the planet’s current state of affairs in their upcoming EP Testament to Destruction. In Pimple Years, Cordero and his Ivy League crew release their one-take recordings from 10 years back, before they (individually) cross-examined witnesses in court, built roads and bridges, designed HR information systems, and saved lives in emergency rooms.
Yes, they are the voice of the unfree world