Arushi Jain’s music lives in the tension between discipline and play, rigor and release. Rooted in modular synthesis and Indian classical traditions, her work pulses with curiosity, always in motion, always glimmering.
RIYL: Kelly Moran, Sofie Birch, Indian tradition meets modular synthesis, Ana Roxanne, Suzanne Ciani, Nala Sinephro, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Oneohtrix Point Never, Caterina Barbieri, Emeralds, Pauline Anna Strom, Laurie Spiegel, Alva Noto, Julia Holter, Alice Coltrane, Midori Takada, Tim Hecker.
Her 2024 album Delight—hailed by Pitchfork, The Fader, and The Guardian—marked a shift in Jain’s practice. Less concerned with goals and more with presence, the record radiates from a place of joyful openness. Jain doesn’t so much compose as converse: with memory, with the time of day, with the body. She calls it a “de-escalation”—a softening of ambition that allows space for surprise. That same sense of permission echoes through her earlier albums Under the Lilac Sky (2021), With & Without (2019), and just a feeling (2018), each a study in harmonic texture and time-stretched wonder.
Lately, Jain has returned to that original feeling—genre-fluid, curious, untethered. She’s writing lyrics, experimenting with gabber and dubby downtempo, riffing on synths like they’re guitars. Her ambient roots remain, not in form but in process: the patient layering, the ear for detail, the search for feeling. “My ears will select,” she says. “Soon I will have no one place to be.” It’s not a retreat from structure—it’s a return to possibility.
https://arushijain.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/modularprincess
Support: TBA
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