8
Innovative
Four Light Years From Home is a heartwarming instrumental record with more interesting ideas than we can keep track of. The album is focussed, with multiple motifs and themes recurring throughout, thus tying it all into a single unit.
8
Innovative
8
Terrific
Touted to be a rustic neo-noir crime saga, 'Vada Chennai' has Narayanan dabbling in his usual folk experiments coupled with modern strings and bass.
7.5
Concise
Queen of Spades by Jose Neil Gomes provides a pronounced and balmier feel, with tracks that keep it concise but much more personal.
8
Liberating
Demons is a self-professed project that sees Dhruv facing his fears, in a manner never attempted before.
8.5
Eccentric
With Lifafa, Suryakant seems to have achieved an artistic catharsis, and we can only hope this inspires loftier projects to come.
7
Delicate
Anushka Maskey's debut album Things I Saw In A Dream is a poignant pandemic-era balladry, spanning longing, loss and hope all spun around the reassuring chug of a warm guitar.
7.5
On the money
The third episode from the ongoing Coke Studio season saw Momina Mustehsan return to the stage that essentially put her on the music map.
8.5
Catchy
The Dil Bechara album dropped a couple of weeks back, and the immediate virality of the album is as much down to the public sentiment around Sushant Singh Rajput’s death as it is about the musicality of the album.
8
Blissful
Eashwar Subramanian's Across the Sea is a perfectly well rounded set of bold ideas.
8.5
Confrontational
More Arriving is undoubtedly a power-packed look into the brown identity that would educate anyone unaware about desi culture and subcultures.
