ADI & DISHAAN ARE TURNING THEIR HANGOUT SESSIONS INTO HITS

The friends-turned-collaborators are just having fun—and their music makes sure you do too

- SHAMANI JOSHI

Listening to Adi & Dishaan's tentrack debut album Good Things Take Time gives you the same feeling you get while watching sunsoaked rays ripple through the surface of a swimming pool— soothed, swept up, and gently entranced. While songs like “Midnight” and “Say” have an easygoing, effervescent vibe that would fit right in at the afters, tracks like “Missed Calls” and “IDK” have edgier, more defiant undertones that echo the restless impulses of the young and unburdened. Packed with a soulful swagger and honey-dipped hooks, it’s almost as if this album was made to remind you that diving headfirst into the deep end can actually be a liberating rush.

Sitting across from rapper and podcaster Aditya Lodha (better known as Adi) and songwriter-producer Dishaan Gidwani at the Rolling Stone India office, it’s easy to see why that's the case. They are friends first, musical partners second. They crack the same kind of sarcastic, self-deprecatory jokes. They finish each other's sentences.