If you return to the albums launched in 2013 within the Indian independent music sceneone record that stands apart is Mumbai pop/punk attire The Lightyears Explode‘s 10-track launching effort The Revenge of KalicharanEver since, the band’s lineup has actually modified, with drummer Jeremy D’Souza changing Aaron Carvalho and guitar player Jishnu Guha aka Brief Round coming on board as a live member, nevertheless, the group’s creators in vocalist-guitarist Saurabh Roy and bassist Shalom Benjamin have actually kept going strong.
With a four-track EP entitled Mellow launched in 2020 and the bubbly”Fond memories 99that came out in 2021, The Lightyears Explode are now out with their very first full-length album in 10 years in the shape of the eight-track Rural Prose. Roy states, “I have enormous regard for the album as a format. After we launched our single ‘Nostalgia 99’ I began considering an album and felt all set to devote to the concept.” He includes, “I understood when our last album came out and didn’t desire it to be more than 10 years in between albums, so we pressed the release to this year.”
The band started teasing Rural Prose previously this year with the songs”Tablets,” “Fighting With Your Family,” “Fake It! Shake It! Make It!” and “Big Big Love.” Ask Roy when the tunes started taking shape for the record and he states, “Some concepts are older than our EP like ‘Literally Kicks,’ however I began putting together concepts and demonstrations seriously at the end of 2021. These early demonstrations altered significantly throughout the [production] procedure and a great deal of the tunes were brand name brand-new. ‘Pills’ was the very first finished tune and set the basic and design template we desired for the album.”
The album that has actually been made is a superb-sounding body of work with the band’s deft touch of distortion and punk structures that sit completely together. “Sonically we desired whatever to be rather cost-effective, we desired loud and peaceful characteristics,” states Roy.
Lyrically Roy wished to draw back the drape from the normal “blowing and self-confidence” we ‘d heard previously. Throughout the album, the singer sings about things that make him feel susceptible such as “psychological health, decomposing relationships, inter-family political distinctions and sensation unfinished with some social circles, however not understanding how to break out of it.”
Rural Prose was produced by Roy while Benjamin and D’Souza contributed drums and bass respectively. Guha is likewise heard on the record and credited for extra guitar and support vocals on a few of the tunes. Ganesh Singaram blended the album while Daniel Natoli produced it.
With this record now out of the method, the band is setting out to launch a couple of more songs and are likewise prepping to tape-record a live album. Roy states, “We feel truly great about our live set and believe it would be a great time to offer it a shot.”
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