Jeet Thayil is a man who wears many hats and he’s now donned the garb of a musician after a long time, releasing a new song called Ride that train with his band, HMT, named after the three members — Hollis Coats, Sandeep Madhavan and Thayil. “This song talks a lot about the isolation and the forced silences of the pandemic. The phrase ‘ride that train’ comes with the notion of just going on amidst this pandemonium,” Thayil shares.

The blueprint for the track had been laid down before the pandemic hit, but then the lockdown stalled proceedings. Madhavan tells us, “Jeet and I have known each other for a while and HMT has jammed together before. But the pandemic ensured that we sit at home and confine ourselves in more ways than one.”