The chill and easy kind

'm keeping it basic this week — top five mellow song releases on this side of Pinoy pop. Keywords are chill and easy.

- By PUNCH LIWANAG

Starting with Adie in “Piliin.” The singer has kept it spare this year. Only on his second single for 2025 (the first being the neo R&B-tinged “Ms. Pakipot”) and not counting his perfect-on-paper-even-better-in-the-actual collaboration with Moira Dela Torre called “Umpisa” just last October, Adie at least has another tune in the neo soul-esque “Piliin.” Adie is built for this music; groovy with just the right amount of head-bob, his vocals smooth, almost lo-fi, with lyrics suggesting Adie, who hit big with “Paraluman,” is still very much head over heels infatuated with whomever he’s singing about in “Piliin.” Check the cadence: “Sa trip mo handang sabayan / makakasigurong bente-kwatrong oras sa piling ko / yun ay kung pipiliin mo.”