Parekh & Singh Ponder The Big Picture On Second Album ‘Science City'

The Kolkata dream-pop duo talk about world tour plans, the wait behind their new record and being ‘passionate dabblers’

- Anurag Tagat

WHEN KOLKATA singer-songwriter Nischay Parekh was 15 years old, he wrote “Monkey,” which also became the name of one of his first bands, Monkey In Me. It’s been a decade since (and Parekh jokingly faults us for making him feel old), but the simple love song still sounds as fresh as ever on Parekh & Singh’s second album Science City.

“I was sitting on the floor with one of my friends from school who played bass, and I just played these guitar chords and started throwing these words on top of it in a collage style. I wasn’t very concerned with theme or context in songwriting back then, so the song was almost constructed to be ‘candy.’ A truly spontaneous piece of music for me,” says Parekh.