“Oh we flee the scene of our little crime
We feel so free
But the hounds of law they bite our heels
As we retreat
Up to the planets up to the bodies of the galaxy
Of the galaxy we fly we feed we suck we bleed we need…”

With these words, M83 takes you on a rapturous journey [...]

Franz Ferdinand released two albums six months into 2009, pretty productive you say. Hearing Blood, their sophomore effort of the year, even if it’s simply a dub remix of their first album Tonight, won’t alter ideas about their productivity or talent. Blood is a smashing album throbbing with electronic beats, thrumming electric guitars, and scintillating synthesizers all [...]

Portishead have been an enigma to many from the day they released Dummy back in 1994, which went on to win the Mercury Prize and sell more than 150,000 copies with minimal press attention. A three-year long hiatus produced Portishead (1997) after which the band hibernated for a long eleven years, to come out with [...]

You all must have heard the alluringly sexy ‘Sexy Boy’ in numerous advertisements on television. This electronic number has been the soundtrack to a raft of movies, ads- with its synth-enveloped nasal voiceover propelled Air into worldwide acclaim. Air is a French electronic duo composed of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel. AIR is an acronym for Amour (Love), Imagination, and Rêve (Dream). And the music stands upto the acronym. The band has consistently produced dreamy, imaginative music over the past 10 years…

In a world strongly engulfed in the flames of conflicts, tensions, killing and hatred, love is rain that not only provides the respite, but overpowers the fire that results from years of communal and religious tensions. In his flagship album, The Idan Raichel Project, Idan has been able to douse these flames with his sweet, [...]