Sundara is a Sanskrit word that means “beautiful” or “noble” while karma is, you know, karma. This information tells you precisely zip about this young band, although it does express a certain boldness and brightness that is relevant (someone – possibly the band themselves – has described them as “more refreshing than sunshine”).
The Hindu/buddhist allusion is a red herring – the new Kula Shaker they are not. They are from Reading, which, for the purposes of this article, we are going to pretend is the New Jersey to London’s New York – just far enough away from the big city to engender a simultaneous loathing of confinement and desire for escape. And the band make a yearning, ringing, powerfully plangent sound that is suggestive of four teens eager to flee and fulfil their dreams and seeks to solicit the approbation of a large audience. They aspire to the driving, rousing anthemia of Bruce Springsteen, with big ideas about death and sacrifice and music up to the task of reflecting same.
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