The Bombay Royale - The Island of Dr Electro

The Island Of Dr Electro is The Bombay Royale's second album. It was released in 2014, two years after You Me Bullets Love.

How on earth should one pigeonhole this band? Indian-styled funk oddysey, perhaps?? It's probably cheating, but in the end I'm going to go with Bollywood Cat Empire.

From the very first sitar note in Ankhiyan, this album is something very unique and special. My personal highlight of this opening track is the infectious headbanging groove, support by oh-so-cheesy-yet-oh-so-right riffs from the strings section.

To sum up Wild Stallion Mountain, it's a spaghetti western style... plus interstellar disco-funk. Which means it is everything one could possibly want in a song! A particular highlight is the third "Bobby" which re-unleashes the funk halfway through the song. Plus the gratuitous horse neigh, of course.

Hourly Night Patrol provides a bit of a breather as an understated ballad, which beautifully tiptoes along... until it unleashes... A FUNK ONSLAUGHT OF EPIC PROPORTIONS. Brilliant.

(Boring audiophile rant: Initially I had deducted points for the lack of any deep bass... but I've since realised that not every album needs to be register on the Richter Scale. The balance between instruments is perfect, the layering is beautifully rich, and the top end glistens wonderfully; in short, it is a great sounding album.)

You might notice that the list of favourite songs below is every song on the album. It's reflective that this isn't a collection of songs, it's a single experience- a wonderfully abstract and intense musical journey.

Favourite songs

Ankhiyan, Wild Stallion Mountain, Khubsoorat Bewafa, Henna Henna, Tere Bina, Hourly Night Patrol, Bunty Bunty, Gyara 59, The Bombay Twist, The Island Of Dr Electro, Falcon's Landing, The River

I diggit?

This is fantastic! And I've never heard anything like it!