The F16s are an alternative band hailing from the port city of Chennai, India. Their music, echoes the melancholia that grapples with the mundanity of everyday life in a town that serves very little outside of itself. Lyrically driven, the 'sound' of the band rests in an arc that also includes acts like LCD Soundsystem, Julian Casablancas and the Voidz and The Horrors; beat-driven yet innately melodic. The band already has a couple of prior releases attached to them: a 6-song EP released in 2013 called Kaleidoscope, and a 2-track recorded in Brooklyn, New York called Nobody's Gonna Wait.

The band has now released their debut full-length album, Triggerpunkte; a nine-song offering that was recorded in Chennai and Mumbai for over a year. Both lyrically and musically, the album meanders between reverb-heavy sentimentality and fast-paced assault. Triggerpunkte is a reaction to the bands previous efforts where we explore the bands identity. the outcome is a populist, experimental, healing, agitating, straightforward, highly polished, and multi-layered album.

Tired is Smalltalk’s latest single and first release of 2019. The song deals with the emotion of being ‘Tired’ of the cyclical and sometimes unavoidable tendencies of human behavior. This somewhat somber theme is served through a whimsical composition, full of color.


Smalltalk is a four piece Alternative Pop band based in Mumbai, India. Their sound, influenced by various styles such as neo-soul, funk & indie pop, is a constant experiment of compositions splashed with intoxicating psychedelic jams, groove filled breaks and simplistic songwriting. They spend most of their time in the lab, carrying out experiments in translating their collective life experiences into the realms of sound. Bringing to the table each a quarter of the required ingredients, Linford D'souza graphs on drums, Yohann Coutinho combines through bass, Siddharth Shankar imagines on Guitar and Samarth Bahl stirs through words. This confluence provides an experience filled with a lush palette of psychedelic and groove filled songs. Their debut release was a 4 track EP called Tacit which was well received by the Indian music fraternity. Their latest release is a Single called Tired, with a music video to follow soon.

Smalltalk have toured in major cities and performed at top venues such as The Piano Man Jazz Club (Delhi), FANDOM (Bangalore), G5A, The Quarter (Mumbai), The Evening Club (Shillong), Swig (Pune) and many, many more. They have also performed at festivals like NH7 Weekender 2018 (Pune), VH1 Supersonic 2019 (Pune), Ziro Festival of Music (Arunachal Pradesh), Orange Festival (Arunachal Pradesh), Indie Earth Festival (Chennai) and Mood Indigo 2017 (Winners of Livewire).