Album Notes

Person is the D.I.Y. pop brainchild of guitarist Miguel Lacsamana of Stamen & Pistils (Echelon Productions) and Metropolitan (Crank Automotive). The band aims for a similar territory of danceable indie rock -- such as the Notwist, LCD Soundsystem, and the Postal Service -- but with a more soulful approach, reaching the likes of the Neptunes, Timbaland, and beyond to create a glitchy, electro/hip-hop backdrop.

The Person full-length, Entitled, is a comment on the fallibility of humanity, and many of the songs play off of one another in an ostensibly contradictory fashion. It follows a protagonist who is in search of truth, but fumbles along the way. Entitled starts off with an almost cautionary sci-fi epic tale, The Fall of Perception, produced by Outputmessage (Ghostly International/Melodic/ Echelon Productions). Throughout the album, Person denounces, then succumbs, to the insatiable desires of the sensory overload within this hyperreal environment. Valid Concerns, an indie rock/IDM club jam, voices thoughts of what he should do to find that special someone, even if just for one night. You Aint Hot, featuring Young Rae (Echelon Productions), is a scathing criticism of today's pop world, achieved by successfully imitating the tried and tired formula of today's pop charters. Motives takes a Phariseean approach to the one-night stand: by giving in, yet placing the blame on the other person. Who Do You Want Me to Be? explores how we all adjust our personalities to satiate what we desire. Neither Forgiving Nor Forgetting is an angry banger calling out the shortcomings of a former lover and by doing so, calling out his own. Although there are critical lyrics, Person concedes that he still surrenders to the ideals of todays consumer-driven culture in the album closer, Business Class.

WHAT THE CRITICS ARE SAYING!!!

"Miguel Lacsamana´s (aka Person) inventive process would be null if it didn't generate music you want to hear more than once. Entitled's experiments create wild and crude club dance songs and also a social criticism of the crappy glamorous pop world ("Valid Concerns" and "You Ain´t Hot"). Absorbing, creative, electronic mind-blowing beats for the hips and ears ("Business Class"). Person has produced a work that mixes pop music and electronic art, the influences are obvious (Prince, Spank Rock...), but it doesn't sound like a desperate extravagant mess. It's an achievement that´s worthy of your attention. Person brings something crowded, smart and private -- stylish grooves, 90´s beats and perverse electronica."
Sabas.jud.as "The New Indie Music Messiah"(http://sabas.jud.as/node/191)

"Lacsamana's innovative fusion of electropop and hip hop is both confident and cool. Smart ass synth-soaked raps rock like the bastard child of a sleazy one night stand between Alison Goldfrapp and Har Mar Superstar. Embodying the entire album's concept, "You Ain't Hot" is a sultry rip on everyone from the Pussycat Dolls to their glitzy club-girl fanbase, which includes just the type of girls who might be willing to spill out of their tube tops drunk dancing to such songs on a saturday night. Now this is the kind of ironic exploitation you can really get down to."
Hip Pop Hooray (http://hippophooray.blogspot.com/2006/06/entitled-persons-crossing.html)

"Hot and sexy electro-pop emanating from Washington, DC with beats as thick as Italian mafias necks is the dirty groove known as Person. This Person might seem anonymous but its so alluring that itll feel as close as the feelings that rush through your body when you see a long lost lover. Funky grooves with dirty synths and catchy hooks, the vocalist rhymes with the best of them."
Smother.net (http://www.smother.net/reviews/techno.php3?ID=514)

"...innovative and quite different from what we're hearing in mainstream pop today...("Entitled") is very refreshing."
POPtastic! (Canada) (http://purepop5.blogspot.com/2006/07/studio-person.html)

"...Entitled may have a lot of ties to previous acts, but is qualitatively different from anything else that is and has been on the market...electronic noises that make such a compelling backing beat should be another missive to listeners that Person is not your average band with a set of techno albums and a dream."
Neufutur.com (http://www.neufutur.com/Reviews/person.html)

"...a little mysterious and exotic, but at the same time, incredibly normal...(Entitled) is a disgusting display of utter confidence..."
Treble Zine
Paul Bozzo (http://www.treblezine.com/reviews/1364.html)