Niru transitions from pop to film music with Kalaaba Kaadhalan, but seems to carry a Suresh Peter’ish Tamil pop sound through Thogai virithu and Urugudhey. Both are listless. Manmeedhu attempts...

Boomikku has a pretty impressive sound but Rahul Nambiyar could relax a bit though! A catchy prelude invites us to a fairly listenable Nenjaangoottil. Vijay’s use of instruments is rather...

Adadaa has a Selvaraghavan-meets-Ilayaraja of yore kind of tune. Pretty listenable, with a rather simplistic orchestration and places where Harini sounds like she’s singing a megaserial title song. Listening to...

Kodakkooli is Theepidikka redux, complete with the hot tone and Anoushka. Throw in a pinch of Raja’s Nethu raathiri and Yuvan has a winner. Good that Yuvan didn’t actually remix...

Lingusaami ditches Vidyasagar and tries Yuvan instead. And, Vidyasagar is whom you think of, during Gumthalakkadi. Yuvan follows Vidyasagar’s style to the hilt here. Jassie Gift continues to drone in...