Peshawar Zalmi drops the coolest anthem of PSL history
The latest offering is a result of a larger switch towards ‘angry anthems’ set into motion by Xulfi with ‘Hum Zalmi’
KARACHI:
While every team participating in Pakistan Super League (PSL) tries to up its audio-visual game every year, Peshawar Zalmi has been miles ahead of the curve. Not only when compared to the rest of the teams but what the rest of the music and video industry is churning out. Their 2021 anthem
Kingdom produced by the young maestro Abdullah Siddiqui ft Altamash is easily the most creative and cutting edge audio-visual presentation to come out in six years of the league.
PSL 2021 songs: Which anthem is the catchiest of them all?
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Saturday Feb 20, 2021
PSL 2021 songs: Lahore Qalandars, Peshawar Zalmi and Quetta Gladiators released new songs to compete with PSL s own Groove Mera.
With PSL 2021 just hours away from its opening ceremony, fans can’t stop jamming to the new songs released. Like every year, this year too, some of the PSL franchises released their individual anthems for the upcoming season of the tournament.
This year s song makers are Lahore Qalandars, Peshawar Zalmi and Quetta Gladiators, who released new anthems for PSL’s sixth edition scheduled to start today at National Stadium Karachi.
Abdullah Siddiqui has done it again. On the heels of his second album, Heterotopia, he’s released Dead Beat Poets, this third collection of the stories he tells through his songs, without a break in between. Dead Beat Poets also marks a departure from Abdullah using obscure Greek words to describe the complex nature of each of his albums.
Listening to one of the first songs from this incredibly prolific artist’s album, Video Game, one can understand why the album is called Dead Beat Poets. Embodying his signature style, the lyrics are incredibly complex and speak in metaphors, allowing the listeners to deduce what they will. But in this album, he turns even that mystery up a notch or two.
Bisconni Music, among others, is a creative, playful and incredibly fun track albeit with a very sombre message called Mera Nahin Hai by the All Girl Band.
The All Girl Band (TAGBand) consists of Anna Salman on lead vocals and guitar, Amal Nadeem on violin, Mishal Faheem on percussions and Sumera Waris on tabla. They broke on to the music scene in the (then) severely underrated
The All Girl Band returns with the catchy and inventive Mera Nahin Hai, that also packs an emotional punch
According to the song’s description, “ Mera Nahin Hai is a song that talks about fighting through the societal pressures faced by all of us in our lives. Let the girls walk you through their struggles only to walk towards the light at the end of the tunnel by accepting yourself for who you are.”
We’re at the last week of the first month of 2021 and the year is still coming on strong with fresh new music releases. This week alone saw current pop music trending favourite, the young Abdullah Siddiqui, release his third album, Dead Beat Poets, just as he was finishing releasing singles and music videos from his second album, Heterotopia.
But between that and the buzz and releases from major (and some emerging) platforms such as Coke Studio, Velo Sound Station and Bisconni Music, among others, is a creative, playful and incredibly fun track albeit with a very sombre message called Mera Nahin Hai by the All Girl Band.