Dark tales

His first album titled Snakeism (July 2010) featured song names like Black Eyed Monster, Ode to a Thorn, No Way Around.
Second album titled Dead Loops (May 2011) pushed the envelope further in terms of dark element, with song names like Acid Facial, Purgatory City, Poison Flask, Wrethced Ghost. But 23-year-old Kishore Krishna, lead vocalist of the Chennai-based band, Adam And The Fish Eyed Poets feels his songs and music aren't dark and that they are in fact just "being me" referring to himself as a "loner" isolated from the rest of the society, and someone who "never really fitted in".Writing songs about characters that he creates, combining different and interesting traits of the people around him (not autobiographical, he quickly clarifies), Kishore is a storyteller and is influenced by varied artists and bands like Sam Cooke, Elvis Costello, Hank Williams, The Smiths, Radiohead, and genres like RnB, Rock n Roll, the early eighties, to name a few.
For the past year-and-a-half, Kishore has been solely spearheading the band but recently around six months ago, band members Nischint Murari and Abhinav Krishnaswamy (guitar/bass), and Prabhu Muralee (drums) joined in. And Krishna is currently wanting to expand the band further and is on the look out for a female vocalist. When asked, the reason for recent expansion of the band, Krishna explains, "Working alone is great. However, working with other people brings more learning experience and variety to my work." Krishna who is a self-taught musician, plays the guitar and "a little bit of everything" like the piano, bass and drums.
However, this musician who dropped out of his architectural course within six months, only to pursue music full time, is quite modest about his talent saying that he doesn't consider himself a professional musician. "All I want to do is write amazing songs and come out with good albums. Recognition and financial success is not my top priority," he says.
Having performed in the city, couple of days back at a South Mumbai club, Adam And The Fish Eyed Poets are gearing up for the release of their third album titled, Songs From An Island. Kishore who has penned and sung the songs has addressed socially relevant issues like homosexuality and homophobia through the fictional female protagonist of his songs, Shanti. The album will feature 21 tracks, including Barbed By A Cocoon, a song about Shanti, an egodystonic lesbian who's experiencing claustrophobia hiding in the closet and unable to accept her sexuality; Redecoration Rules is about Shanti's phase of menopause, wherein she tries to a perfect housewife decorating her house whilst living with her indifferent husband; Cosmic Katy is a song inspired by Katy Perry wherein Shanti is having a meltdown because of her homophobia and acts aggressive by tearing a magazine cover featuring Katy Perry, symbolising freedom and a happy person. However, Kishore clarifies that he is not here to preach any social message through his music, it's purely storytelling through music. As for the serious aura of the album, he describes Songs From An Island as ""melodiously rich, lush and irony" compared to his previous albums, Snakeism as "rude" and Dead Loops as "raw and unembellished".