With video-streaming platforms facilitating the purchase of single songs — thereby rendering the archaic trend of making music available only via the sale of albums futile — several artistes switched gears to focus on solo renditions, years ago. Ask Darshan Raval what encourages artistes of his kind to still find promise in albums, and he points to the trend as an extension of one's desire, instead of a monetising strategy. "This is simply something I have wanted to create since five years," says Raval of his six-track album Judaiyaan, a reflection of the pangs of loneliness experienced by people in the last eight months.

"Also, an artiste can only weave stories together via albums, like we did for this one, where the theme of separation has been expressed in six different ways."