The Lost Cause

Singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Dhruv Visvanath’s moving second album *The Lost Cause* reveals a deep, emotional journey beautifully carried by guitar strings. The inspiring single “Wild” has a raw folk feel with pure emotion radiating through an impassioned vocal. Pop lovers will take to “Botswana” with its up-tempo melody and catchy hooks, while the sensitive title track and “Afterglow” highlight the overall feeling and sentiment of this album.

After having embarked on the longest musical journey I’d ever been on, I took the time after to reflect on what each destination meant to me, to decipher the stories, the nuances, and embrace the friendships I’d built along the way. Nobody tells you how you’re supposed to reflect on a journey of self discovery, to list pros and cons, to reminisce and forget, or to just think of the journey as the baby you sen off to college. In fact why take it in the first place? What purpose do you hope to achieve from it? If the journey of self discovery leaves you asking more questions than answering them, is it truly a lost cause? The Lost Cause is a project two years in the making. After Looking at the millennial generation today, we often wonder about the paths we take, the risks we face chasing our dreams, the time we take to understand ourselves. I found a lot of young people in our day and age often embark on journeys to find ourselves. Through different experiences, career experiments, or trips around the world, we embark on journeys in the hopes we can understand ourselves better. And more often than not, we find answers that don’t satisfy us, and in the end, it feels like a lost cause. I guess I took a rather ironic look at the situation, and decided I would travel across India trying to find stories about my family and their history, looking at stories of where my father grew up, where my grandfather grew up, where my great grand father lived and worked. I figured the best way to understand who I am would be to see where I came from. I guess I looked at The Lost Cause ironically.