Rex Vijayan and Neha S Nair’s vocals effortlessly sweep through the pleasant synth riff in Uyirin nadhiye, while Arun Suradhaa’s Dilruba sneaks in beautifully in the interlude. Neha, in particular,...
Continue reading...Kaalakaandi (Music review), Hindi – Sameer Uddin, Shashwat Sachdev
Swagpur ka Chaudhary borders on Psychedelic Funk and carries the same irreverent swag from Abhinay Deo’s Delhi Belly (which Akshat, Kaalakaandi’s director wrote). Abhishek Nailwal ups the ante with the...
Continue reading...PadMan (Music review), Hindi – Amit Trivedi
When a man truly and completely adopts his woman’s electricity bill, you get Aaj se teri! Kausar Munir’s zingy lines lend this gently lilting ballad by Arijit significant heft even...
Continue reading...Agnyaathavaasi (Music review), Telugu – Anirudh
Dhaga dhaga maney, with its searing guitar backdrop (Prasanna, Rex Vijayan and Keba Jeremiah) and Anirudh’s vocal-cord busting singing is a pulsating listen! The classical guitar interludes and Anirudh’s work...
Continue reading...Mukkabaaz (Music review), Hindi – Rachita Arora, Nucleya and Vineet Kumar Singh
Paintra is as combative as the sport the film portrays. Nucleya’s vibrant music fuses pan-Indian kuthu sounds effectively to let Divine deliver a grungy song. Mushkil hai apna is a...
Continue reading...Vimaanam (Music review), Malayalam – Gopi Sundar
Vaaniluyare has everything one expects from Gopi – pleasant melody and his trademark strings, but somehow, it all sounds too familiar. The song’s other expression, Anthimaanam, by Nandini Srikar is...
Continue reading...Milliblog Weeklies – DEC17.2017
Milliblog Weeklies – India’s only multilingual, weekly new music playlist. Week 5: On | On A note on each song in the playlist. Paintra – Mukkabaaz, Hindi: Edgy, punchy and...
Continue reading...2 Countries (Music review), Telugu – Gopi Sundar
Ullasamlo has an easy rhythm and a fairly engaging tune that doesn’t aim for anything more. Vareva Dollar Baby is Gopi trying his own Andhra-style kuthu – the sound is...
Continue reading...Masterpiece (Music review), Malayalam – Deepak Dev
Madhu mozhi is what you call Madhu Balakrishnan for. A semi-classical medley that wants to do too many things, in too short a time and ends up being merely passable....
Continue reading...How do you discover new music?
I came across this , on the role of Spotify in the future of the music industry. It led me to think about the function of music discovery, something I...
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