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Sunset Bar is the latest collaborative project from Delhi-based singer-songwriter rohh and Mumbai producer Mr. Doss. Across five tracks, the duo explores the emotional...
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There is something devastating about growing up and realizing that love doesn’t always look the way movies promised it would. As children and teenagers,...
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Written, produced and mixed entirely by 20-year-old artist trick/switch over the course of a year and a half, the nine-track album sits somewhere between...
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Brooklyn-Mumbai producer/DJ/ Radio Host Rajah Betta has been slowly carving a space out for Indian & South Asian sounds on the dance floor. Closely...
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Switterbeat, the musical alias of Bangalore-based Aditya AK, crafts genre-bending soundscapes that often speak on the themes of light and shadow. By day, he’s...
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The shamanic art metal outfit from Mumbai, Serpents of Pakhangba has unleashed their second studio album, Air and Fire, a sprawling 13-track concept album...
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Guwahati-based band Joker’s Whoop with a Steven Wilson-isque essence released their debut album Beautiful Spell, earlier this year. Picture yourself in moments of solitude...
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In just 9 minutes and 30 seconds, Urban Poet’s latest EP, Culture Ties, manages to do what some albums can’t achieve in an hour—pull...
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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...
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At just 18, Shriya, a Mumbai-based singer-songwriter, has created an intimate, strikingly personal world in her debut EP, In A Box. This four-track collection...
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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,...
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There are albums you listen to, and then there are albums you experience. Quest by Antariksh is firmly in the latter category. From its...
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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...