Optimism can be hard to come by these days. It’s why we need grentperez, an artist whose music is absolutely chock-full of the stuff. The Sydney-born Filipino singer, songwriter, producer and visual artist has carved out a unique – and, given the state of everything, necessary – space for himself with songs that are speckled with sunlight, dusky with nostalgia and as breezy as late summer afternoons with your best mates. His music is exuberant and soulful, its wide-ranging amalgam of bedroom R&B, dream-soft indie and vintage bossa nova a salve that not only sooths but reenergises those who may be feeling a little world-weary.