Jhahnaa: Love & Alchemy
Jhahnaa Turns the Messiness of Love Into Art on Love & Alchemy
by Jack Rush
Mumbai-based singer-songwriter and multidisciplinary artist Jhahnaa approaches love from a refreshingly imperfect perspective on Love & Alchemy. Across seven tracks, the pop/alternative project rejects the idea that relationships follow a clean emotional arc, instead moving through attraction, insecurity, obsession, heartbreak, regret and recovery.
What makes the project particularly interesting is how deliberately Jhahnaa builds beyond the music itself. Her synesthesia connects each track to its own colors, while her work as composer, stylist, art director and designer allows those associations to shape the album’s larger visual identity. It gives Love & Alchemy a sense of intention that can easily get lost in an era of increasingly disposable releases.
The tracklist follows that philosophy closely. “Drunk” captures love at its most intoxicating, while “Love Again” exposes the anxiety underneath attachment. “Crawling Out” complicates the idea of another person becoming your light, eventually allowing that same light to consume and burn. The darker “The Knife,” influenced by Evanescence, feels especially significant, pushing outside the album’s broader pop framework to confront love at its most painful.
Later, “Bridges” considers the cost of choosing ambition over companionship, while “Gone Away, Here Now” recognizes family and friendship as equally meaningful forms of love.
Produced by Azamaan Hoyvoy and mastered by Ashyar Balsara, Love & Alchemy succeeds most when it refuses easy conclusions. Jhahnaa is less interested in romanticizing love than examining what it changes, destroys, and ultimately creates.
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