A three-track EP that Mumbai-based musician and producer Abhimanyu Mulli­ck aka Manyu has released is titled around a basic and staggering problem Mumbai has been battling — garbage. Everything is Garbage talks about how everyone has their own version of what garbage means, while also referring to the surface-level layer of waste all around the city. "Someone's gold can be someone's garbage, and another person's garbage can amount to gold for someone else," says Manyu, about the bass-heavy electronica tracks.

The 29-year-old musician, who used to sing in a rock band called October in Delhi before he left for California to study audio production, came to Mumbai in 2015 and started living with his childhood friend and producer, Arnav Singhal. He's the one who egged him on to start releasing his originals. "The end of 2018 was a phase when I noticed that everyone around me was going through some sh*t or the other, dealing with anxiety and work. And even when it came to the climate or politics, everyone's perspective was that it had gone to the dogs. You think things can't get worse, and then they do," he explains.