After a barn-burner of an antiSOCIAL Mumbai debut, breakthrough Pune-based alternative quartet REN are bringing their melancholic, angst-ridden debut EP to Delhi's Depot48.
Praised as a "Genre-defying Rollercoaster of Love, Loss, and Everything In Between" by the Indian Music Diaries ‘The Fear Of Falling In Love / The Fear Of Falling Apart’ is a living and breathing echo of the band's musical influences and captures the emotional weight of losing a piece of your heart.
The result is an ambitious balancing act that flits effortlessly between alt-rock, pop-punk, and hyper-pop and takes you through vignettes of rage, ecstasy, despair, and joy – tied together by a profoundly irrational and sentimental longing for a person that no longer exists.
The antithesis of their boyband-adjacent aesthetic; REN creates sonic worlds where
pop hooks, driving synths, and 808s meet syncopated breakdowns, angst-driven
anthemic choruses, and a post-hardcore-influenced swagger that quite literally pulls
their audience onto the stage with them. Whether you're a SOBO snob, an older emo,
an indie kid, a scenester, a socialite, a hype beast, a raver or a metalhead, you'll find your people at a REN show.
They'll be supported by Delhi's very own JAHNVI.
A pop rock band which is lyric driven,
emotive and gritty, intertwining different genres like pop, metal, blues, jazz and hip hop to support the narrative of the different stories that they tell.
The stories are the sound of the band which is what makes it so cinematic and theatrical while still keeping it rocky.
The writings come from a very autobiographical place which makes one feel too relatable,
talking about things that you wouldn't necessarily like to say but instead want to say.
From the grand sound scapes of songs like "Elixir Skin" , "Fight To The Phantom" and "Love Lured" to stripping down to very intimate sound choice in songs like "Stay with you" and " Bilkul Mann Nahi Hota" while still keeping the cinematic themes in mind, with the prime example being the song "Your Roses" and "Die In My Memory", the band has a wide variety of atmospheric presence.