““How are you feeling?” No Rome asks on the second track of his long-awaited debut album, ‘It’s All Smiles’. It’s a question that, while not explicitly voiced, is woven into the fabric of the rest of the record – its title, after all, refers to the idea that sharing your struggles and pain is a positive. Over 10 songs, the Dirty Hit-signed artist – aka Guendoline Rome Viray Gomez – shares stories ”
“On his full-length debut, the 24-year-old singer’s chameleonic tenor pierces through the Dirty Hit template and finds a natural fit in pouty pop-rock and gauzy trip-hop.”
“The Filipino singer-producer Guendoline Rome Viray Gomez has described his music as “shoegaze R&B”. His debut for the 1975’s label certainly gestures in the direction of both genres. What No Rome never resolves is the contradiction between shoegaze, where singers sink in quicksands of guitar, and R&B, which often depends on the lead vocal’s quality. His choice is to foreground his thin, trebly voi”
