Ajaneesh opens Kalkond bitte with what sounds like (African/Saharan) Tuareg guitar and hands over the song’s reign to Haricharan. Hari, for his part, is in blistering form, seamlessly moving from...
Continue reading...Dear Zindagi (Music review), Hindi – Amit Trivedi and Ilayaraja
Love you zindagi has an ebullient tune, but is too steeped in predictably—including Jasleen’s now-familiar woman-child voice—Amit Trivedi’ish sound (the club mix, featuring Alia, has more spunk). Ditto with Vishal...
Continue reading...Hitman – November 12, 2016
Originally published in The Hindu. Kadavule vidai – Rum (Tamil – Anirudh) While Rum has a globe-trotting mix of genres (including hiphop and reggaeton!), the most interesting and addictive song...
Continue reading...Paambhu Sattai (Music review), Tamil – Ajesh
Neeyum naanum has a lovely, easy-on-the-ears lilt. That it’s also mighty short, with just one pallavi and charanam, and the faint echo of Rahman’s Indira number Odakkaara Maarimuthu makes it...
Continue reading...Maaveeran Kittu (Music review), Tamil – D.Imman
Pooja’s singing and Imman’s claps-led orchestration work beautifully over Elanthaari‘s enticing melody. The reprise offers a lovely variant, with Sniti Mishra’s mighty unique vocals and a fresh background. Pradeep Kumar’s...
Continue reading...Hitman – November 5, 2016
Originally published in The Hindu. Ae dil hai mushkil – Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (Hindi – Pritam) When you listen to the title song of Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, you...
Continue reading...Force 2 (Music review), Hindi – Gourov-Roshin and Amaal Mallik
Beyond the jingoistic ode to the Indian Army, Rang laal has nothing going for it, given it is a loosely strung set of dialogs and occasional outbursts of so-called tune....
Continue reading...Rum (Music review), Tamil – Anirudh
Hola amigo is exotic and funky hip-hop served with Anirudh’esque punch that includes what sounds like kanjira and snatches of dialog from Netflix’s Narcos! Incidentally, the song’s other version, Hola...
Continue reading...Milliblog’s Top Recent Listens – October 2016
Trying this new: listen to (almost) all the songs from this list via Saavn in one playlist Note: This playlist does not include songs from Chennai 600028 II: Second Innings...
Continue reading...Rubaai (Music review), Tamil – D.Imman
Asuthuthe features incredibly breezy guitar and Imman takes on the singing duties of the frothy tune confidently, with it taking a gorgeous Latino flavor too. Unkooda pesathaane is Imman +...
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