Roymon is an interesting character who fluctuates between long rants and intense pessimisms as much as his music oscillates between sounding like The Strokes and Green Day.
He is part of a band called Jaded Clowns, a duo called Delhi Metro Seat, but mostly he is a solo artist whose music is a broad mix of punk inspirations.
Modern Love and Expiration Dates fuses The Voidz and The Strokes to create a deeply sentimental exploration of modern romance.
Modern love and expiration dates
Blink of an eye then you leave me
Swiping right to be left alone
Digital age please baby love me
There’s a groove. There’s a catchy chorus. Is This It by The Strokes is an obvious sonic recall for any listener.
Modern love you always want it fast
You make us all just disposable options
The song is an ode to our perpetually unromantically online generation and as real as it can possibly get. Julian Casablancas would confuse it for one of his tracks. The resemblance is striking.
Take my heart and put it on a tray
Make and break it in terrible ways
This music is the sound of a generation that grew up blasting Green Day, The Strokes and the like. Lyrically there’s a lot of wallowing in self-pity, a cultural analogy and a pessimistic mockery.
Getting close just to fade away
Another heartbeat came another heartache
The poetry is in the streets. Punk is an embodiment of all those elements that the mainstream evades. A subtle rage shapes all of Roymon’s music. That rage is both personal and political.
Little Bird Fly Away echoes a politics that is both deeply personal and intensely sentimental.
Glad we connect, such a beautiful gift of fate
Mirror to my heart and a reflection to my soul
You taught me what it means and feels to be loved, to be cared for
Wish you a life as beautiful as your soul
Just Like Heaven by The Cure is an obvious lyrical and compositional inspiration. The melody, the chorus, the structure and the lines are fossilized from the original opus. Roymon takes his inspirations and breathes his own over all of it.
Innocence in her eyes
And a heart’s that’s rare to find
Only wish that she will always be fine
Love and laughter, she’s got a lot of care
The style of The Strokes, the voice of Billy Joe and the craft of The Cure mix to create a cohesive dynamite.
You came into the night of my life
Like a blessing in disguise
Roymon hails from Jabalpur and after one too many binges of American Idiot and Is This It he took onto the punk ideals. He has failed mostly in all else – but never in music.
Delhi Metro Seat is a side project of Rushabh Roymon with Decibal Duke – both of which sound like usernames for video game characters. Their music is just as quirky as their usernames.
Meher is a great instrumental. Just fast groove on an electric guitar combined with great production to create a melody that recalls early LCD Soundsystem and later King Krule.
Catloaf is a meaningless fun song. It has a party quality to it. A-raise-your-hands-in-the-air-bop-your-head-feel and a striking originality that is both punk and funk at heart.
Decibal and Rushabh tell me that Delhi Metro Seat is just about having fun together. They’re just goofing around and making bangers. The production quality on these songs is minimal but there’s a striking craftmanship on display.
If punk is about not caring then I Don’t Want You to Show Me Your Boobs is a song that doesn’t care at all.
I don’t want you to show me your boobs
Cause I wanna know where my taxes go
The song is as catchy as its title. The hook is that the song truly doesn’t want to see boobs and is far more interested in politics.
The government’s gonna rip my pocket
But I don’t want you to rip my soul
Politics and love are both explored on the same verse that is invaded by noise from traffic and non-diegetic sound from background.
Scandalize the streets
Vandalize my sheets
We gotta go a long way from here…
It is a peacefully beautiful song that ought to be played over and over and over…
