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Raxit Tiwari of Your Chin
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Naturally Scattered: Your Chin EP Review

The latest four track EP by Raxit Tiwari, front man of Sky Rabbit, is a 15-minute musical journey. Inspired a lot by the tones and hues of Sky Rabbit, the Your Chin moniker follows a similar style, but is based quite heavily around simple, yet groovy electronic beats. With a much deeper and more introspective look at things, this album is more soft and subtle. Having played alongside the likes of Ox7gen and opening for Gotye, this solo project is now well underway with a second EP- Scatter Nature.

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Starting with Fingerprints and Mugshot, the song weaves a wistful and melancholic electro-beat to which dual vocals are set at opposing octaves. Light chimes in the background are just one of the many intricate, but not overwhelming electronic fill-ins used over the soft vocals.

Who Would Have Thought, the second track, features some dreamy guitar landscaping, again layered over some electronic, sidelined percussion. A dystopian outro concludes the song in a very melancholic fashion that more or less sums up the feel of the album, dreamy, wistful and melancholic, but at times, upbeat.

Run Along Little One, the third track, is a little more upbeat and full of small interesting noise samples, stitched into the main rhythm. Our favourite on the record, this track, weighing in around 4 minutes, is definitely one to hear after five shots at the pub. Check it out yourself.

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For Love, a popular number, sounds like what Black Moth Super Rainbow might do with clean vocals. A constant, intricate drum line with bass, around which the different sections of song revolve. Simplistic guitar licks move in towards the end of the song, along with an overhead synth, forming a very nice dreamy backdrop to the vocals.

Giving up a quarter of your hour for new music is always a gamble, but this record actually follows a seamless flow in terms of sound and dynamic, making it very easy to groove to once one understands it. Ultimately, the album is meant to convey more emotion than just any one particular genre. Reminiscent in partial ways of The XX’s and Deathcab, there is nothing inherently Indian about the song dynamic, but we feel it is definitely more applicable to the suburbs of Indian metro cities than a Paris or New York.   [newsfooter]