Delicious Collision occurs in a series of big riff portals— psychedelic convergences of ancestral, elemental, and erotic spirits whose dance maps pathways for identity through resistance and liberation. These portals are portrayed by climatic, unison melodies and grandiose swells through each song. This full-length progressive art rock album is a narrative tapestry of music styles, unfolding as a new Filipinx epic.

The mythos begins underground with Game One, a chthonic cave rave teleplay in the style of chamber prog, with an incantation by my grandparents in their native Filipino tongues, Aklanon and Cebuano. The song cycle then rages through heavy-nu metal rock strata in the song CUT, and then a volcanic sludge melding G-funk with prog rock in Stick Figures. The album’s side B blooms in the sonic polyculture of contemporary classical with California psychedelia on Mmmh, and Musica Popular Brasileira-inspired grooves through luscious soil on the track, Yo banana boY. The record finally launches skyward, wielding a decolonization protest anthem with Passion Play, a cross-pollination of musical traditions synonymous with cultural liberation: jazz, salsa, & soca.

Throughout the record recurring use of contemporary metallic percussion and guitar tones reference kulintang, a sound that stewards gushes’ Delicious Collision, a new Filipinx mythology. 

The album showcases immersive world-building complete with vivid production, bursting instrumentation by a formidable ensemble of my friends, and a song progression of metaphoric ecological growth that guides the listener from the core of the earth, out toward the sky.

AN UNCONVENTIONAL RELEASE CYCLE

Breaking the industry formula, and embracing DIY ethos, gushes embarked on a 6-month album release cycle for their debut LP, Delicious Collision.

The first single Yo banana boY (April 2025), a piece on cycles of life/growth and death/decomposition, released with two events serving food sovereignty and public gardens. For Asian food sovereignty project, Choy Commons' Spring Fundraiser, gushes x Jess Tsang presented Rice Music, an abstracted version of Yo banana boY with tactile feedback percussion, diasporic folk music collage about rice harvest, and a political tea ceremony. gushes produced an ambient drone installation version of Yo banana boY for Bryce Peterson's The Hanging Gardens of Brooklyn in Herbert Von King Park, a public sculpture featuring native plants and soundsystem.

The second single, Stick Figures (July 2025), a nonbinary birthing spell set in the Catskill Mountains of Upstate New York, emerged as a music video directed, shot, and edited by Santos, their cinematographic debut. Foxy Digitalis writes, “Santos directs the video with ceremonial precision, transforming the Catskills into a ritual space where bodies become portals.” The video premiered as a living room gathering and third space, presented by PTP, inviting other artists to share and discuss their work and the music video format.

For the third single, Game One, gushes performed a multimedia dance piece with choreographic direction by Jas Lin (Mitski, Hana Vu, Jamila Woods), and live visuals and audience-generated drone ceremony SWOONFEST25 at the Dimenna Center, NYC, presented by TAK Ensemble in September 2025.

Concluding the album release cycle, gushes presented two special events in October 2025 in NYC. On October 3rd, PTP hosted a listening party at Lichen, featuring the album in its entirety and unreleased music from PTP Collective and Switch Hit Records played through Deborah Garcia's RECORDAR sound tower. Their album release followed on October 20th at TV Eye featuring gushes' 9-piece live band, plus supporting acts Lou Tides, KAYE, and ALYXÅNDRA.