Chennai indie artiste Aira’s ‘Hurricane’ explores heartbreak

Two strains into Hurricane, Chennai-based Nidhi Srinivasan aka Aira paints a stark image of advanced heartbreak. Because the track progresses, the music will get as compelling because the lyrics, constructing gently with an eased deliberation. The teenage singer-songwriter’s depth and readability of thought refuses to waver, as she weaves extra particulars into the image of two estranged lovers who’re at utterly completely different levels of breaking and therapeutic.

Launched lately, Hurricane is Aira’s second single, after Golden Hour in 2021. Each tracks have been produced by Michael Timothy. A low, delicate, pop quantity, Hurricane describes turmoil, numbness and quiet sentimentality with the identical diploma of matter-of-fact acceptance. To 18-year-old Aira, who has been writing songs for the reason that age of 12, this monitor additionally represents a shift in her artistic course of: “Not like my traditional writing course of, Hurricane is a track I’ve been placing collectively for months on finish. Over the previous yr I’ve been always revisiting it, going forwards and backwards earlier than sitting right down to document it. So after I lastly sat down, I used to be very decisive about what I needed to do with the monitor sonically and lyrically. I knew what I needed it to embody.”

It helped, after all, that she was freed this time from all of the doubts and anticipation that include placing a track out for the very first time.

Chennai-based indie singer-songwriter Aira.
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This ease and readability shines via within the closing monitor, aided maybe by the truth that the venture is fully Aira’s personal. From the act of songwriting to capturing artistic cowl artwork, she has accomplished all the things by herself. 

This has been intentional from the very starting, from the times when “I used to jot down songs in regards to the difficulties of being 12, and the way arduous faculty life is,” she remembers with fun, describing the quite a few diaries she nonetheless has along with her, crammed with songs she penned years in the past. 

“Even then, after I had no actual intention of placing my songs on the market, I knew that in case I ever needed to, it must be with my very own music. I didn’t know that there was an idea of different folks writing music for you. So, I did,” she says, merely.

There’s, nevertheless, one exception. Aira remembers the primary track she ever wrote: “It was a track I had written with my greatest good friend again within the day, in center faculty. We wrote about how we had been going to spend our summer season holidays.”

‘Hurricane’ is streaming now on Spotify.