Sunidhi sounds completely out of sorts alongside KK in Pad gaye ji – the tune itself sounds like that of an 80s college band’s debut! Crazy Lover‘s lyrics are crazy...
Continue reading...Infinite Love (Music review), Non-film – A R Rahman
How would you react if a man wearing a black robe with hood and just a hole in the place of face (with light streaming through the hole!) came to...
Continue reading...Milliblog India Top 10, 2012
If you haven’t seen the actual Milliblog Top songs lists from Hindi, the 4 Southern languages and Indipop, here you go – Milliblog Annual Music Round-up 2012. One of my...
Continue reading...Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola (Music review), Hindi – Vishal Bhardwaj
The title song is brisk and builds its energy gradually and surely, while Khamaka builds into a gorgeously pleasant melody, complete with an African chorus, but with middling vocals by...
Continue reading...Nayak (Music review), Telugu – Thaman S
Laila O Laila takes its Pancham roots very seriously and impresses with bombastic rhythms and swaying tune. Kathi lanti pilla sees Thaman work his slow and rhythmic template to wonderful...
Continue reading...Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu (Music review), Telugu – Mickey J Meyer
Yem cheddaam is a harmoniously sung track where the lyrics blend in brilliantly with the energetic tune! Aaraduguluntada is wonderfully pleasant, thanks largely to Kalyani’s singing, while Chitra rules over...
Continue reading...Naan Rajavaga Pogiren (Music review), Tamil – G V Prakash Kumar
College paadam is old stock of boring college’y lyrics, set to middling music, but the composer joins his fiancé Saindhavi for the breezy techno in Yaar ivano – well sung...
Continue reading...Milliblog Annual Music round-up 2012
Mandatory note, as usual: these lists are in order of preference, not random order meant diplomatically to please assorted composers. Compared to last year, I tracked Malayalam and Kannada much...
Continue reading...Ethir Neechal (Music review), Tamil – Anirudh
Nijamellam maranthu‘s sound is a mix of hip-hop and a beguiling range of curious sounds! Dhanush and Anirudh seem to have solid fun singing it even if it’s all heavily...
Continue reading...Kadal (Music review), Tamil – A R Rahman
Chithirai nila is a serene opening, powered by wonderfully hopeful lyrics by Vairamuthu, adorned with imaginative background changes and ending on an anthemic high! Sid Sriram powers Adiye with supreme...
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