Jubin Nautiyal and Altamash Faridi carry the Mohit Suri’ish melody in Ek mulaqat rather well; good work by composers Amjad-Nadeem too. Daniel B George’s Cheenti cheenti and Sapney are both...
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Milliblog monthly multilingual music reco – August 2014
Just a little crush, If you feel & Open book – TV Dinners (Indipop – Mikey McCleary) One heck of an enjoyable album that clearly deserves more promotion. Really wish...
Continue reading...Naaigal Jaakirathai (Music review), Tamil – Dharan Kumar
Bhoomi sutrum has all the energy of a Vikraman film’s meteoric-rise-of-hero-in-one-song – functional, at best. Naresh Iyer handles the quintessential boyband pop ballad, En nenjil rather well since it matches...
Continue reading...Mahabalipuram (Music review), Tamil – K
Aathadi yenna solla seems like a dream combination of K’s impeccably beautiful tune-smithing – very Imman’ish too! – and his fetish for violins that he displayed so beautifully in Yudham...
Continue reading...Vanmam (Music review), Tamil – Thaman
As Maname starts, it only creates an anticipation that the singers, Suchith Suresan and AV Pooja will break into ‘Dil se re’ at any time, since the background seems like...
Continue reading...Aagadu (Music review), Telugu – Thaman
The title song is standard-issue hero intro material, with a generous sprinkling of bombastic English epithets and a repetitive rhythm. Junction lo and Narri narri are no different – Thaman’s...
Continue reading...Khoobsurat (Music review), Hindi – Sneha Khanwalkar & Badshah
Sneha’s Sound Trippin’ looms large over Engine ki seeti and Baal khade, the former, a Rajasthani funk riot, aced by Resmi Sateesh and Sunidhi, and the latter, a significantly more...
Continue reading...Aadama Jeichomada (Music review), Tamil – Sean Roldan
Sean writes, sings and composes Odura nari, all by himself! The colloquial lyrics are intriguing, and the tune is neat and sing-along’ish. Thanniyila‘s guitar-strings combo is unmistably Sean, but its...
Continue reading...Sapthamashree Thaskaraha (Music review), Malayalam – Rex Vijayan
The title song has a pulsating world music’ish sound and manages the cornucopia of sounds admirably well, headlined by Suchith Sureshan’s confident vocals. Thaane pookum rests on scintillating singing by...
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