10 Best Indian EPs of 2022

From instrumental prog-rock to easy-going offerings, hip-hop and more, here – in ranking order – is the crème de la crème of Indian independent EPs released this year

- Anurag Tagat and David Britto

10 Zyakuni in My Backyard – Zyakuni in My Backyard

INDIAN ROCK REALLY was waiting for someone to make a no-nonsense, driven record and it’s a surprise that it comes from the capital where live bands are often parched for gigs and sharpening their sound. Zyakuni in My Backyard offer a lot of diversity on their five-track self-titled debut EP. There’s a wedding song of sorts in the form of “Parking Lot,” followed by a dreamy, balladlike “Missing Bridge.” In the vein of artists like Phoebe Bridgers, Zyakuni in My Backyard are painstakingly bare and yet refined in their craft on lo-fisongs like “2 Glow: Fade,” but amp it up marvelously and theatrically on “Eliza’s Cure” and “Storm,” rounding offa diverse rock record from a scene that was really lacking in the recent past. – ANURAG TAGAT

9 Raja Kumari – HBIC

AS IF IT WASN’T ENOUGH to adapt Alisha Chinai and Biddu’s indie-pop hit “Made In India” into a resolve-building hip-hop banger, Raja Kumari released her EP HBIC (that’s