LAVI & Foenix's Debut EP 'No Phones at the Dinner Table' is a Brutal Commentary on Internet Culture

The Bengaluru-based duo released the EP via Mumbai’s Export Quality Records

- DAVID BRITTO

WHEN HYDERABAD-BRED singer-songwriter LAVI reached out to Mumbai-bred artist Foenix via Instagram in 2021 to congratulate him on his latest release, the pair immediately hit it off and exchanged music with each other. LAVI says, “We quickly realized how well our styles and visions matched.” Foenix adds, “Within a few weeks of knowing each other, we made several demos.” The duo would go on to release their moody debut single entitled “Spiral” in January this year. Now, LAVI & Foenix — who are both based in Bengaluru — are out with their enthralling five-track debut EP No Phones at the Dinner Table via Export Quality Records.

In this interview with Rolling Stone India, they talk in-depth about the EP, taking the project live, future plans and more.

What was it that planted the seed for the pair of you to work on an EP?

LAVI: We both moved to Bengaluru in April 2022, determined to release a longer project in the coming months and to focus solely on music. After ‘Dye My Hair’ was written in December 2021, we realized that it had the potential to be a part of a thematic story instead of a one-off single. Once we moved, we ideated other tracks to sonically and lyrically fit its theme and eventually came up with