Kedi audio - Yuvan back to form

You are getting ready to leave work on a Friday evening. And while browsing your usual sites before you leave, you come across the news that a new music album has been released. You download the songs. You say to yourself "OK, let me hear couple of songs and leave". But it turns out that the songs are too good & compelling to hear that you don’t leave your seat, until you have heard all the songs in the album. You do a la Ted Ferguson, staying a good 45 minutes past your normal starting time, ON a Friday evening. That should say something about the album, right?! Well, the above is my experience of first listening to Yuvan's latest album Kedi.

Finally, there is an album where all the songs are so catchy that you get hooked on to each one of them, right on your first hearing. No exaggeration here. Each and every song has a fresh feel to it and after a slightly disappointing Vallavan, Yuvan comes back roaring to his form with this sure-to-be musical hit.

Right from the choice of singers for each of the song to the musical arrangements of the songs, everything is just about perfect. In particular, I liked the different hip-hoppish beats that he has used in songs like 'Aadhivaasi' and kedi paiyya. I really don’t want to go into details of each of the songs, bcos each of them is so good. The range of the songs in the album is quite different too. You have a typical annan - Thangachi sentiment song in Kunguma poove to Yuvan's typical heavy beats song in Chumma chumma to a typical college song College life-da (this song reminded me so much of Deva’s good old gaanaa numbers) to a item number in Unna petha aathaa

Pick of the album – Kunguma poove (Ranjith has done a fabulous rendition in this song which sounds so IR-ish)
Better songs – Chummaa chummaa, Kedi paiyyaa, Antha Vaanam, Aadhivaasi (loved Shreya Gosal’s voice in this one)
Can skip it – College life-da
Sure to be chartbuster – Unna petha aathaa (Jassie Gift at his usual best in this one)

This is the second consecutive album that Yuvan has not taken up the mike to sing a song. Looks like finally somebody has talked sense to him. (But I still wouldn’t mind another "Ore naalil" once in a while if Yuvan can reproduce the same magic again). Apart from that, the other thing that is too glaring to miss is the fact that the movie has been made for both the Tamil and Telugu audience. It shows in most of the songs with the item number standing out in particular.

When I read the interview of the director of the movie in Vikatan a while ago, where he had some glowing words to say about the songs in the movie, I was not too impressed since every director always tend to talk highly about every aspect of their film, music being the most important of them. But one thing still made me expect this album with more curiosity - this director's previous film was with Rahman and the fact that he has moved on from Rahman to Yuvan should have surely inspired Yuvan to justify the director's decision. And I do feel that he has done more than enough to prove the director right.

This album might not stand the scrutiny of music critics like Karthick bcos of its primary purpose to cater to the masses but I am sure every song in the album is bound to be a huge hit back in India, once the film releases. Yuvan has hit the final nail on the coffins of all those doubting thomases who just weren’t giving him the respect & attention he so rightfully deserved. And with movies like Satham Podaathey and Paruthiveeran (with Vasanth & Ameer respectively, directors who are known for extracting the best out of their music directors), due to be released shortly, I am really all excited while thinking about what is in store for us, Tamil musical fans, in the near future from the Ilaiya Isaignaani. In short, Yuvan pattaiya kelappi irukkaapla.