Second Sight’s ‘Coral’: an album with many a tales
In their listening session on Lishash, Anusha and Pushkar divulged the stories behind the tracks on the album, how they met and more
A lot has already been written about Second Sight’s musical finesse, and we don’t really have the experience and knowledge to understand or comment on that. What we do love though are stories, lyrics and what music makes us feel. We had all of that last night, when Second Sight made a comeback to Lishash, for a listening session of their debut album Coral.
The album spans genres in a way that’s almost unheard of, while also cutting across themes without causing any dissonance. They take us from hip hop and the blues to Mexican Bolero seamlessly, and the honesty with which they spoke about the album was beautiful. Apart from being a self — acclaimed experimental album, it’s a clear summation and showcase of Second Sight as a duo and their time over ~6 years as their thoughts and views on social, environmental personal issues have evolved.
Dim Lights (Acoustic), for example, was something that Anusha tried to have fun with, infusing as many melodies as possible.
We heard stories for each of the tracks — whether it was a long email to Warren Mendonsa (Blackstrablues), hiring a cellist and a trumpeter from Fiverr, some recording accidents that led to different time signatures on a track and a lot more.
We also went on to hear the not so famous story of Second Sight — how Anusha and Pushkar met each other — and let me just tell you, it goes years before Swarnabhoomi.
As with all of their music, Coral is thought-provoking about larger than life, yet personal issues — homophobia and the environment, toxic usage of social media and “weird” imbalanced relationships. It’s the kind of album that you don’t just listen to more than once, you go back to tracks time and time again.
Check out the album here.