Multi genre band Fourth Lane hosts a genre spanning session
Fourth Lane is a band that I was introduced to by one of our users, pizzayeol, when she answered an Instagram poll we’d put out asking who would be an artist they’d like to have on the app. On hearing their discography, what struck me as it would to anyone, is the genre — spanning music of the band. Very quickly, and very organically Fourth Lane’s Aditi, Ajay and Raghu curated a session called ‘Moodswings’ — with music that’s across genres.
As promised, the session was musically varied and the structure was so: the band followed inspiration tracks and artists followed by the track of theirs it resulted in. We started with a very calm, acoustic Irish folk track followed by a track by Fourth Lane.
The track list curators, Aditi and Ajay were metalheads — and as we went on to this genre that’s, let’s just say, not for the faint-hearted, Aditi and another user bonded over their preferences and favourites of heavy metal giants Slipknot.
This session, in particular was different; there was more chit chat and banter, joking around and just hanging than the usual artist session where folks speak mostly only about the music. Was it that Ajay listened to prog metal for about 5 hours with some of the users in the session earlier that day, or just the band interacts with folks — with a ton of modesty and a lot of lightheartedness.
We sailed through hip hop and EDM inspirations and OG tracks, all while chatting about the music, and really — just hanging.
We learnt of how Ajay and Aditi went to the same school, and junior college in Pune while having spoken maybe all of one time. After she graduated college, she reached out to him and that’s how Fourth Lane began!
As the session ended and people hung back and played music, Ajay queued some tracks from his other band Half Cooked Rice and then another artist — Saurabh Tripathi, who joined the session played a track of his out too, that’s out only on YouTube. His track was, infact, the first track to be played after we launched YouTube functionality on the app!
All in all, Fourth Lane’s session marked the first session we had with YouTube and an artist session that truly felt like a hang with friends!