When Chai Met Toast’s debut album will make you feel young

‘Kahaani’ is the third single in When Chai Met Toast’s début album that is an ode to all the things that make us relive our youth, whatever our age

What makes us feel young? It is a question that Kochi-based band When Chai Met Toast is exploring through its début album, three years since they began dominating the Indian indie/folk pop scene.

Recently released ‘Kahaani’, the third single in When We Feel Young, lets a gentle acoustic guitar and banjo fill in each other’s silences. The sound is endearingly familiar to listeners of indie folk, but what’s different this time around is that the lyrics are entirely in Hindi. Penned by Ankur Tewari — another favourite among Hindi-speaking crowds with a liking for quiet acoustics — ‘Kahaani’ is about “two nice people who just met at the wrong time,” as vocalist Ashwin Gopakumar puts it.

“We felt the tune…

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