Summary from 18 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Jay Som's catalog across 4 albums from 18 opinions, with an overall average of 7.9/10. The top-rated Jay Som album is Everybody Works (2017) with a 8.6/10 average from 3 ratings, followed by Anak Ko and Turn Into. The discography on Wavelength spans 2016 to 2025. The Bus Song ranks as the highest-rated Jay Som song on Wavelength with a 8.5/10 average.
Everybody Works
“Melina Duterte’s careful, wise, and excellent album is the rare debut that expands the borders of a genre. It’s not bedroom-pop because it sounds a certain way, but because it feels so intimate.”
Turn Into
“Melina Duterte is a San Francisco musician who performs as Jay Som. She plays every instrument on her album Turn Into, a kaleidoscopic collection of dream pop touching on multiple moods.”
Anak Ko
“They say don’t judge a book by its cover, but Jay Som’s latest LP’s artwork is entirely representative of what you’ll find inside. A girl blithely dances on an edge alone in front of a beautiful dusky sunset, suspending herself in a pose just as Anak Ko floats and drifts from start to finish, seemingly aimless yet entirely driven with purpose. Melina Duterte’s second full-length record is an expl”
Belong
“It's been six long years since California native and multi-instrumentalist Melina Duterte released new material as Jay Som. In the interim, we've swapped Swiftie friendship bracelets, filled up on viral TikTok dances and taken in too many risqué "Juno" poses to count. The landscape of modern pop music has become defined by multi-million PR campaigns, social media gimmicks and high-octane live perf”
Anak Ko
“On her debut album ‘Everybody Works’, Los Angeles singer-songwriter Melina Duterte, who performs as Jay Som, crafted a gorgeously understated set of indie-rock songs that placed her alongside the likes of Snail Mail, (Sandy) Alex G and Soccer Mommy as a new breed of exciting indie-rockers coming out of the US. While her songwriting expertise was clear to see on the debut, ‘Everybody Works’ sat un”
Anak Ko
“2017’s Everybody Works invited the world into the mind of California’s Melina Duterte; a warm and welcoming new voice to assimilate into the modern indie canon. This second self-produced record does nothing to suggest that Duterte doesn’t belong, building on the promise of her debut without deviating too far from its foundations. There is nothing on Anak Ko (the Tagalog phrase for “my child” that”
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