{"id":41291,"date":"2009-01-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/going-nowhere\/"},"modified":"2009-01-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T00:00:00","slug":"going-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/going-nowhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Nowhere"},"content":{"rendered":"

India’s vibrant domestic music scene, which subsumes the traditional — Hindustani and Carnatic — and the modern — Bollywood-pop and its myriads of incarnations — is for the most part estranged to rock music .\u00a0 This is true even with the existence of a long-standing local rock music scene, which hasn\u2019t grown beyond a small cult following. From the depths of a rock music industry that is practically nonexistent in comparison to some of India\u2019s distant Western neighbors comes a fledgling indie act by the name of Lounge Piranha.<\/p>\n

The story of Lounge Piranha could be that of any other indie band from, let\u2019s say New York<\/st1:state><\/st1:place>. But unlike the band from New York<\/st1:state>, this band from India<\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place> is a part of a subculture that\u2019s still in its infancy. There are no record producers to scout, no million dollar contracts to be snagged, no pre-defined molds to try to fit into. In all essence, Lounge Piranha — or for that matter any other rock band from India — is na\u00efve and unsophisticated compared to a similar band hailing from New York. But this very lack of sophistry is Lounge Piranha\u2019s strong suit.<\/p>\n

The music of this band (which hails from the city of Bangalore) has the charm of old-school alternative music, from the time when such music was still restricted to the domain of college misfits spending too much time in obscure record stores (which did exist once upon a time).\u00a0 It’s far removed from what alternative music has become today, where the the indie culture: has become a mass-produced way of life for iPod-toting urban hipsters. Lounge Piranha\u2019s longing, winsome songs shaped by simple guitar melodies have the earnestness of yesteryears\u2019 college bands like The Replacements and The Lemonheads.<\/p>\n

These guys pull out tricks that a similar band in the US or UK would dare not attempt for fear of sounding too guileless and pass\u00e9, and this lack of inhibition and pretension forms the core some of the best cuts on the record. \u201cSnakes And Lotuses\u201d and \u201cEbb\u201d have an awkward goofiness that\u2019s shamelessly old-school and utterly delightful. The title track, \u201cGoing Nowhere\u201d and \u201cEclat\u201d are wistfully emotional by not being a bit showy or artsy.<\/p>\n

The band does go a bit astray with \u201cGun Song\u201d and \u201cTeenage Curse\u201d when they try to get serious and intense. Here they find themselves robbed of their flippancy and sounding a bit tired even though they make a valiant attempt at pushing their style.<\/p>\n

Like the industry they belong to, Lounge Piranha too is still maturing. But in this period of nascence come great glimmers of promise from a band that\u2019s not yet jaded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":29690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8318],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-41291","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-lounge-piranha","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=41291"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=41291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}