Archive for the ‘Review’ Category

Summit Attempt – Blue Bugyal

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Gone are the days when bands sorted their outfits before sorting their sound. Today’s rock junkies are all about writing great music and putting it out for the world to listen to. It’s not about the pretty anymore and our indie acts have been getting their act together in the right areas lately. Eastern bands, [...]

The Big Thaw – Bliss Logic

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

‘The Big Thaw’ defrosts genre defined auditory senses
Creative liberties are tricky tricky subjective risks artists like to take every now and then. Of course if it’s a Salman Rushdie crafting plots around his visual characters its poetic. Musicians, unfortunately, are privy to a more impatient audience(so we like to think). Having said that, if the [...]

The New Album – BlackStratBlues

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Blackstratblues is a project pretty well known to anyone who has been following the indie scene here in our country for the past couple of years. We say this because it filled a cold void left behind by a great guitar player in the country’s rock scene when he returned to give us some [...]

Going Nowhere – Lounge Piranha

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

The first thing that strikes you about Lounge Piranha’s debut effort is the fact that it sounds like something new in terms of musical melodies and structures yet has that innate ‘Indianness’. With their melodies and vocal harmonies, Lounge Piranha(LP) bring in a unique ‘Indian’ feel and their chord structures that could have been written [...]

Junkyard Groove – 11:11[bootleg]

Sunday, November 8th, 2009

Midway through Junkyard Groove(JYG)’s debut album, the music resembles a junkyard of sounds filled with old rusted chords, spare/highschoolish bass fills and echoes of songs that you might have once heard on the radio. The groove is inexplicably hidden yet the shed tries to brandish a brand new polished and produced sound out of used, [...]

‘This Is It’ – Thermal And A Quarter

Monday, October 26th, 2009

So I listened over and over to try and be as objective as humanly possible to search for words that wouldn’t make me a Paper Puli; a puli who’s on the prowl to critique the music that is Thermal and A Quarter(TAAQ), and the first song on the fourth album of Indiá’s most musically sound [...]