Tere bin, featuring KK is uncannily like Pritam – very similar, up-tempo ballad. The remix is even more like a Pritam track! The title track sounds, at best, like fusion...
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Kiya Yehi Piyar Hai (Music review), Pakistani Pop – Annie
Beyond the controversy about assorted record labels rejecting her and the album-leak brouhaha ahead of its launch, Annie’s latest album is a surprisingly fine effort. The 3 melodic tracks, Kiya...
Continue reading...Ranam Sugam (Music review), Tamil Pop – Paadhai
Paadhai’s second effort, Ranam Sugam, is interestingly packaged as a Musical Novelette! The music seems heavily influenced not by the man revered in the CD – A R Rahman, but...
Continue reading...We Are The 1 (Music review), Malayalam Pop – Arrows
Swarasagaram is a lively enough tune, but feels hurried, while Mele mele‘s raag Vakulabaranam based tune is plain filmy and stale. Chil chil is fantastic, Shaan’s arrangements making a huge...
Continue reading...Cafe Fluid (Music review), Naveen Kumar
The melancholic Heartflute’s tune is heartfelt and instantly strikes a chord. Kerala cues in Sindbad Vs. Kerala are subtle; the Sindbad cues, non-existent. But it is gorgeous – the ambient...
Continue reading...Music review: Akriti (Indipop – Akriti Kakkar & Shankar Mahadevan)
Out of the two Shankar Mahadevan-composed tracks, Mehrmaa ve is a strangely 80s filmy melody; thankfully, it’s spunkily arranged. The other track, Na re, is more like it – edgy,...
Continue reading...Music review: Jannat (Indipop – Ankur Tewari)
Ankur Tewari’s acoustic rich debut pop album holds some genuinely interesting tracks! Like Chand chahiye, Aaj kyon, Hum and Shehar mein, which are easy on the ear and even have...
Continue reading...Music review: Kyun Dooriyan (Shafqat Amanat Ali)
After the spellbinding debut, Tabeer, Shafqat’s second album sure comes loaded with expectations. Kyun dooriyan plays it in typical Shafqat-style fusion and is generously helped by Nabeel Nihal’s energetic guitar,...
Continue reading...Music review: My Free Spirit (Indipop – Shibani Kashyap)
Ba khuda is the same old arabic’esque track that every Indipop star does the mistake of singing. Buena vida is the Latin equivalent of the same mistake. Dance along has...
Continue reading...Music review: Udaan (Indipop – Prayag)
Bas karo‘s guitar-loaded Raghupati raghav opening seems gimmicky since the rest of the track, while perfectly competent, sounds disjoint. Langoor chala is funny and the angsty tune works pretty well,...
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