Pritam does it again with Metro

The songs of Metro with a mellow, calming Sufiana mood are worth a listen, writes Suman Gupta.

Clearly, Pritam is the tadka of the season. What with Himesh Reshammiya attempting to be an actor (pleeease!), Anu Malik out in the backwoods, Vishal-Shekhar not exactly being prolific and Ehsaan-Shankar-Loy making musical news only when they’re with toprung production houses, the charts are wide open for our Dhoom dude.

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This album’s not the sort you’ll fall in love with at first listen. The 11 cuts melt into each other, indistinctly ...but patience pays...and how. The semi-sufi, semi-Pakistani and, like it or not, semi-Bhatt-brothers riffs are all there...but assume a life of their own.

Rishtey by a deeply-soulful James, Alvida by some unit called feat. KK and Baatein kuch ankahee si by Adnan Sami grab you because of their mellow, often anguished quality .

In Dino (not to be confused with Morea presumably) by Soham, “revisited” – meaning remixed – by one Bunty Rajput, is perfect sing-out-loud-in-the-shower material.

The lyrics aren’t extraordinary but at least some new thoughts and words emerge from the efforts of Syed Quadri, Sandeep Srivastava and Amitabh Varma.

To be sure, a big team had themselves a feel-creative time here...and so, there’s little or no doubt, that Pritam is rocking. Here’s keeping ear lobes crossed that he keeps up the pretty cool sound going...on...and on.