In an age starting to seem fairly devoid of soul, full of a hundred million “genre-defying rock” bands all using the exact same formula, I’ve recently been disillusioned and finding solace in early Scott Walker records. There was something rough – unpolished and uninhibited about the early ’60s, an era that a lot of bands in this country have ignored entirely. A time when bands wouldn’t hesitate to put out 600 LPs, beautifully obsessive about their intricate craft. Chennai’s Adam and the Fish Eyed Poets, the project of Kishore Krishna, refreshingly seems untouched by the present-day.
The first of his two new songs, ‘I Will Follow’, takes off from his own ‘Little Monkeys’ (which featured as the Indian rep on January’s Music Alliance Pact), 1950s prom music, the Everly Brothers and the Beach Boys fused with all that Tom Waits-y vocal gravel. I’d go as far as saying Kishore Krishna is probably the best vocalist in Indian indie right now. His previous album Snakeism saw him dabbling in different directions, at times poppy and at times edging toward industrial music. His second new song ‘Harvest’ is well seated in ’80s romance-pop. He’s been listening to The Beat, Crystal Stilts and Desmond Dekker, and if these two songs are any indication of the upcoming album, we can expect some old-school vintage this year.
Stream the songs below.
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