LA WEEKLY
NMND | FEBRUARY 2 2021

It’s not your typical dance music. The pair create sounds that tunnel into your head and set up camp there. The music isn’t catchy, in the traditional EDM style, but glorious experimental and listenable.

WITH GUITARS

LACE | APRIL 27 2020

Liar’s Notebook gets moving with a jazz feel unharnessed on the groovy, funk-based “Liar Liar. The wonky bass lines and grooving guitars produces a colorful sound. ‘Mana Contractor really brings the song to life with energized scatting, bursting with loads of flavor and soul. The song will really reel listeners in. 

NEW YORK TIMES

SWEET LAND | MARCH 1 2020

A head-spinning abstraction of colonialism and whitewashed mythology, “Sweet Land” has been described by its creators as “an opera that erases itself.” It achieves an effect not unlike that of traveling back in time to witness the first Thanksgiving, then returning to the present to hear its story warped through the traditional, wholesome retelling.

INDIAN WOMEN BLOG

JUNE 29 2019

Ever listened to a voice so sonorous that it flows with the sound of instruments in an alchemy where it appears that there is no saturation point between the sound of metallic strings and the singer’s voice? It is like the two coexist and sweep through your soul in a perfect harmony. 

VOGUE INDIA

MARCH 2 2018

"A self-professed late bloomer, 29-year-old Contractor is making amends. With her school Music Education and Life Arts (MELA) in Bengaluru, she gives up-and-coming artists the kind of music education she hopes she had received."

ROLLING STONE 

CHANDBIBI & THE WASTE CANDIDATES | DEC 26 2014

The mammoth, trippy nine-minute jam that is “What Have We Become,” which was also one of their best moments when they debuted in Mumbai earlier this year.