Yeththara Yeththara, with its adequately pumping music, works perfectly as a song featuring multiple shots! Yazin Nizar’s lead vocals and Swagatha S. Krishnan who joins later, keep the song consistently...
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Lakshmi (Music review), Tamil – Sam C.S.
Morrakka Mattrakkaa is a beautifully constructed joyous outburst of a song. Uthara Unnikrishnan’s exuberant and innocent voice carries it as much as Madhan Karky’s inventive lyrics cheekily inverting the genders...
Continue reading...Mr. Chandramouli (Music review), Tamil – Sam C.S.
Sam goes overboard with his vocal shenanigans in Kallooliye, but his glitzy music jumps excitedly with that ‘Kaathaa kalakkura’ and with Swagatha’s fantastic singing, it works. Yedhedho aanene ups the...
Continue reading...Karu (Music review), Tamil – Sam C.S.
There’s palpable tenderness in the way Swagatha S. Krishnan handles Aalaliloo, rendering Madhan Karky’s gentle verse as if they are brittle. Sam’s music is wonderfully serene, even segueing into a...
Continue reading...Iravukku Aayiram Kangal (Music review), Tamil – Sam C.S.
Sam builds Iravukku Aayiram Kangal’s soundtrack by splitting the mood literally in two equal parts. Uyir uruvaatha and Yean penne neeyum are pleasant and so full of love, while Yea...
Continue reading...Vikram Vedha (Music review), Tamil – Sam C.S.
Sivam’s weathered vocals go searingly high-pitched in Karuppu vellai. Given the song’s Revathi raaga base, Sam seems to be invoking Aigiri Nandini, with a hypnotic swag. Oru Katha Sollatta? is...
Continue reading...Kadikara Manithargal (Music review), Tamil – Sam C.S.
Kadhal pennae rides on Karthik’s dependably excellent vocals and the little nuances Sam layers, like the dramatic change in rhythm to start and end the anupallavi, and that really short...
Continue reading...Kadalai (Music review), Tamil – Sam C.S.
That Sam ropes in Hariharan for Oththa mazhayila is a big win by itself. But what is even more interesting is the delightfully inventive melody Sam cooks up in it...
Continue reading...Mellisai (Music review), Tamil – Sam C.S.
Vellai kanavu is a simple, evocative melody that Sam orchestrates in a likeable manner, along with Hariharan and Harini’s vocals. In Lola, Maria Kavitha Thomas’ stellar singing elevates the Bond-like...
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