Finally at long last, a quick review of Pupil’s latest album “Wildlife” This is their follow-up from their debut album “Beautiful Machines” which produced the hits Nasan ka?, Dulo ng Dila, Dianetic just to name a few. This album nearly never existed, due to the fact of Ely’s near-death experience early this year. This album has been spinning in my cd player and playing in my ipod for a while. Why? This is just a superb album in my opinion. A great follow-up from their first one, and this lived up to it’s expectations.

A rundown of the tracks in the album:

1. Fin – the first track which was sung by ely’s wife, dianne. A slow acoustic track

2. Matador - Here is where the rockin’ starts… catchy drumbeats and guitar riffs will surely blow your speakers away…

3. Monobloc – another guitar-riff driven track… reminds me of those brit bands like “franz ferdinand” (listen closely to the chorus part.)

4. Here i go again – A dark and heavy track, mostly drum parts are present.

5. Talon - Ely takes a break from singing and Yan Yuzon takes over the vocals. overall, one of my favorite tracks in the album. I liked the lead part and the construction of lyrics… take a listen to it and you’ll figure why Yan is not like his brother, Yael.

6. Sumasabay – Again, ely takes a break and Dok Sergio takes on the vocals. An easy song to sing, catchy, specially the “oi” part. One of my favorite tracks also in the album.

7. Animal Lover – Now ely is back singing. This reminds me of “Blow your house down” from their first albumin terms of the guitar riffs and drumbeat.

8. Teacher’s Pet - A groovy song that somewhat reminds me of one eraserheads song (i forgot the title) but there’s no comparison to it, “eheads is eheads” and “pupil is pupil” right?

9. Sala - Their carrier single in this album. I first heard this one almost 2 months ago while on my way to a birhday part and i said to myself, “Whoa! pupil ba yan? astig” and so the rest is history. This is a song about the environment. cool!

10. Disconnection Notice – Disco-nncetion notice… this song says it all.

11. Bato - A trippy song, farewell song… this slows the album after a hard rockin set of songs that came before this track….

12. Set Me Apart – Probably the best track in the album (next would be Talon and Sumasabay) this was used as the theme for “Animax” catchy riff by yael and kudos to the arrangement of the whole song.

Overall, this is a contender for album of the year. Im not being biased but this could be my choice as “album of the year” Kudos to the guys for a job well done. I know this might sound “jologs” but i don’t care, im going to get my copy of the album signed by the band. cmon, pupil? they rock! Get the album at all cost. get the original one and i’ll tell you… no regrets! buy it!

Possible future singles:

  • Talon
  • Sumasabay
  • Monobloc


Overall Rating:

A+