Life has come full circle for Angad Bhatia. The guitarist first picked up the instrument when he was in school, in class five, and was then introduced to the concept of home recording a few years later, when he was 16. “I figured out that I could download drum samples and produce music in my bedroom. I was also really inspired by bedroom guitarists who were like one-man bands,” Bhatia says.

But he met a bassist in college and the two of them decided to form a prog-metal band called Festacorn. Next, another band called GreyFade needed a guitarist for a few shows and contacted him to fill in, only for Bhatia to be made a permanent member after the original guitarist quit the act. Suddenly, the youngster found himself in two outfits. He got caught up in releasing music with them and even started a new project called CandyFloss with a friend because he’d always been attracted to synth-pop and wanted to do something in that space. And all this led to his bedroom falling silent, so to speak.