Review Skrat’s New EP Circus Act Is An Indian Garage Rock Highlight Everytime a band puts out a new record that has been overproduced to the pulpit, making it sound like in polishing the sheen to... Saptaparna Samajdar4 days ago
Callback Soundtracking the Mundane: How Begum’s ‘We Are Excited’ Turns Life’s Banality into a Groovy Escape While walking down a particularly mundane stretch of a road near my campus, a realization dawns upon me, blooms in my head like a... Saptaparna SamajdarFebruary 9, 2025
Review Trisha J’s New EP, Killer Times Delves Into Self-Satire As Storytelling Pune-based alt-indie artist Trisha J is a storyteller – it does not take one much to figure that out. Within the first few minutes... Saptaparna SamajdarFebruary 8, 2025
Review “If you play a bluegrass song in Bengali, then you would be the only person in the world doing it”— In Conversation with Diptanshu Roy, aka Dolinman When I meet Dolinman, or more formally, Diptanshu Roy, in his 300 year old near-palatial home in Calcutta, in which he houses countless instruments,... Saptaparna SamajdarJanuary 23, 2025
FEATURED Venoz’s New EP Saanp Seedhi Is A Manifestation of His Cinematic Sensibilities There is rhythm to Venoz’s work, almost a swinging one. In his 5 track EP, Saanp Seedhi, the rapper who is trained in Hindustani... Saptaparna SamajdarJanuary 16, 2025
Review SYEYL’S New EP Temporal Drift is A Journey in Ambience and Emotion SYEYL’S new EP, Temporal Drift, is magnificent. I listen to it in the midst of Kolkata traffic, in the throes of noise and confusion... Saptaparna SamajdarJanuary 10, 2025
Review Tejas’ Small Victories is Music In Time Capsule Form If you have been listening to Tejas’ new release, his 8 song EP Small Victories, and it puts you in the throes of a... Saptaparna SamajdarDecember 31, 2024
Callback Laughter and Earnestness: Unveiling the Layers of Chandrabindoo’s “Juju” If I were ever asked to use one word to describe my childhood, I would probably gravitate to “non descript”. Well, two words. It... Saptaparna SamajdarDecember 28, 2024
Review Farhan Khan’s ‘Alif Laila (Part 2)’ Is Ambitiously Poetic Farhan Khan is committed to the art of the story. In his two-album spanning discography, he has created multiple characters, killed one of them,... Saptaparna SamajdarDecember 20, 2024
Interview “I belong to a family of musicians, and I am the third generation to do so” – In Conversation With Divyam Sodhi You might have seen Divyam Sodhi on your Instagram reels. Poised against his red wall, armed with an incredible voice and amazing technical control... Saptaparna SamajdarDecember 16, 2024