Homegrown: Your Imaginary Friends
January 12, 2010 | PULP Magazine
The story – okay, the saga – of Your Imaginary Friends began when Bicol native Ahmad Tanji decided to move to Manila to start a new life, and realized he couldn’t live without a band. Prior to that, he attempted to exchange files and ideas with future Your Imaginary Friends drummer Eric Po via email a la Postal Service, but when that didn’t pan out, he decided to fly out here instead. Immediately, he contacted his brother Khalid – a guitarist and Manila-based nurse – and Eric, and jammed the songs he had written back in Bicol. “Those songs sounded like Your Imaginary Friends already,” recalled Ahmad. “Kailangan lang ng dagdag na guitars and all that stuff…” Read full article
YIF: Meet Our Friends
October 4, 2010 | Status Mag Online
Your Imaginary Friends has just released their LP, One Dreamy Indeterminate Hum. We just want to say congratulations because they continuously make a lot of people happy through their music. Now, here’s a chance to get to know them better… Read full article
Humming Along
September 30, 2010 | Businessworld Weekender
ONE OUGHT to expect that with the EP title of One Dreamy Indeterminate Hum, that the music of Your Imaginary Friends would be akin to a sonic ellipsis — unsubstantial, halting, wispy. It is anything but. While it can be light and lilting, the sound is solid; no tentativeness, no halting pause, no slacking, just the pure confidence of plug-in-and-play… Read full article
Finding Your Imaginary Friends
September 16, 2010 | The Manila Times
The latest band churned out by rising indie pop label Lilystars Records is called Your Imaginary Friends. Their sound hovers somewhere between upbeat 80s guitar pop and early 90s rock, with a bit of dance mixed in. Four years in the making before arriving at their current lineup, Emerald Aquino (bass) joined brothers Ahmad and Ed Tanji (vox/guitars and guitars respectively) and Eric Po (drummer) in March 2010 with a resolve to do their bit in the name of pop music… Read full article
Your Imaginary Friends: Of Lovely Poetries and Seductive Semantics
October 9, 2010 | oflustandliquid.wordpress.com
Derivative. Forming a four-piece band with a female bassist in it says it all, and hearing several bands whilst listening to them is just an additional. Name it. The Pixies in some verses, The Magic Numbers and Ben Gibbard in others. Their type of music is a no surprise for me. It is Britpop meets grunge with a little shoegaze and new wave as toppings. But their lyrics are exceptional, sublime, and something in between. They are frantically derivative, yes, derivative—and nowadays, who’s not?… Read full article
