Bhromor by Surojit Chatterjee, Radharaman

Some songs are made for a single moment. Bhromor is made for all of them. Behind the melody is the work of Radharaman, whose composition choices give Bhromor its distinctive texture.

Surojit Chatterjee, Radharaman's vocal here has a quality that is difficult to describe but impossible to miss — it simply feels true. Prosenjit Chatterjee, Rituparna Sengupta are at the heart of Bhromor, and Bhromor captures their dynamic at its most compelling.

The song dates from 2016, but nothing about it sounds dated — the emotions it captures are not tied to a moment. Listeners have described the experience of Bhromor differently — romantic, melancholic, uplifting — which suggests the song is large enough to hold many truths.

Running to 5:12, the song is exactly as long as it needs to be, which is the hardest length for a songwriter to find. It is, at the end of it, a very good song — and sometimes that is the only explanation that matters.