GETTING BETTER

Out with their third album, dream-pop duo Parekh Singh are after improvement, not adulation

- Poulomi Das

An eternity seems to have passed since Parekh & Singh, the Kolkata-based dream-pop duo comprising Nischay Parekh (vocals, guitar) and Jivraj Singh (drums, electronics), released a full-length album. Their last album, the mesmerising Science City, came out in 2019; the acclaim was cut short when the duo cancelled their multi-city album tour, owing to Parekh’s mental health struggles around live performances. “Perhaps I’m not supposed to be a live performer,” Parekh, then 26, said on Instagram about logistical constraints triggering his anxiety issues. When the Covid-19 pandemic made the world retreat indoors in 2020, it afforded the musicians a stopgap of sorts. They could now recalibrate their vision and expand the possibilities of their own sound.

Three years since, the result is there to see in