For music aficionados in the city, Shashwat and Sarthak Karkare are familiar names. Having been around the alt-rock and indie circuit since 2012, the brothers recently launched their latest project, St Cyril in 2022. Their latest EP, The most amazing exhaustion of the century, comes as a snarky explosion with its vibrant guitar chords and synth experiments.

The brothers have been playing together since school. “We are, thankfully, good colleagues and also share similar tastes in music,” shares Sarthak Karkare. Having been part of multiple projects, including Unohu with Yohann Coutinho, Sarthak’s solo-project Maqta among others, they decided to start St Cyril in the pandemic, he notes. “We named ourselves after the road St Cyril in Bandra,” he laughs. The sense of almost-punk snark is imbued in the three-track EP. The title, he shares, perfectly summarises it.