Ali Sethi and Gregory Rogove make Room Jhoom feel like devotional pop in motion

Ali Sethi and Gregory Rogove’s Room Jhoom enters the 12 June critical conversation through Pitchfork’s review slate, and it immediately feels like one of the day’s more elegant left-field pop entries. Sethi’s voice carries a rare ability to sound both intimate and ceremonial, while Rogove’s rhythmic and compositional background gives the collaboration a wide frame. The title itself has movement in it: room as space, jhoom as sway, a place that does not stay still. That is exactly where the project seems to live. Experimental pop works best when the experiment does not crush the song, and Room Jhoom appears to understand balance. It can hold devotion, rhythm, texture and pop accessibility without flattening its sources into a generic global-fusion product. For listeners who want beauty with a complicated pulse, this is one of today’s most promising listens.

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