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Melina Duterte is a master of voice: Hers are dream pop songs that hint at a universe of her own creation. Her latest album Anak Ko, the title is the Filipino phrase for “my child”, is inspired by the lush, poppy 80s bands such as Prefab Sprout, the Cure, and Cocteau Twins, sounding dazzlingly tactile, and firmly present. The result is a refreshingly precise sound. On the subtly explosive “Superbike,” Duterte aimed for the genius combination of “Cocteau Twins and Alanis Morissette”—“letting loose,” she says, over swirling shoegaze.