Thaliya thaliya offers the perfect platform for NTR Jr to showcase yet another song with moving-the-shirt-collar-up-and-down dance movement, while Prema desam is just functional regurgitated Mani Sharma melody. Mathileka pichiga...
Continue reading...Kempe Gowda (Music review), Kannada – Arjun Janya
Sudeep pulls off Hale Radio pretty well, aided by Arjun’s digital intervention; the tune itself is perfectly cooked to be instantly catchy. Thara thara too gets its massy sound bang-on…rhythmic...
Continue reading...F.A.L.T.U (Music review), Hindi – Sachin-Jigar
Despite the ennui-inducing, very-Atif’ish tune, Le ja tu mujhe is a gorgeous listen, complete with a delightful sarangi interlude; it uses Atif’s vocals perfectly. Hard Kaur’s Char baj gaye works...
Continue reading...Thenir Viduthi (Music review), Tamil – S S Kumaran
Mellena sirippaalo‘s passable tune is marred by poor singing by Kousik and that disparate sax accompanying all through the song. Ennavo pannudhu evokes pleasant memories of Ilayaraja’s rustic tracks of...
Continue reading...Game (Music review), Hindi – Shankar Ehsaan Loy
Bourne? Don? Moody? Atmospheric? It’s a game seems like a combination of all this and functions effectively as a title credits song. Sunitha Sarathy offers a neat, low-pitched title hook...
Continue reading...Jhoom (Music review), Pakistani/Indi Pop – Ali Zafar
Of the 4 tracks composed by Zafar, Jhoom reverberates like Euphoria’s material, and is beautifully arranged. The country’ish Jab say dekha and the non-descript Nahin ray fall flat, but Mirza...
Continue reading...Bappi Lahiri’s Grammy jury services – a bit of truth and a lot of gas?
Update 1: Thanks to the comment by Raghu Ram, we now know that Bappi’s album does exist, at least on iTunes. iTunes’ listing does not mention Gerald Albright’s name though…perhaps...
Continue reading...Narthaki (Music review), Tamil – G V Prakash Kumar
The Destiny starts laboriously but picks itself up impressively as the jadhis kick in, while the lovely melody in Poovin manam gains from Tippu and Harini’s vocals and specially Na....
Continue reading...Looking Out Of The Window (Music review), Indipop – Joi Barua
Kot opens the album spectacularly – Joi’s Western rock influences are nuanced and classy; never blatant. The extended orchestration that kicks-in three fourth into the song and ends with that...
Continue reading...Mambattiyan (Music review), Tamil – Thaman
Karuppannasamy is a rollicking listen thanks to the techno-Urumi and Nadaswaram backgrounds, while Chinna ponnu sela is a sadly predictable attempt at creating a folk melody, despite a mildly likeable...
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