The Key Has Turned - Surjo's first full length album

Indian singer-songwriter Surjo released his debut album, The Key Has Turned, in November 2014 — twelve acoustic songs that he wrote over about three months.

A departure from his usual electric-guitar rock, the album is just Surjo and his acoustic guitar. The songs are intensely personal: failed relationships, and the experience of being a musician in a society that would rather accept his engineering degree than his convictions. Among the twelve tracks are 'Scream' (written in 2011) and 'Your Diamonds My Rust', an homage to Joan Baez's 'Diamonds and Rust'.

One track, 'Everyone's Favourite Four Letter Word', became a crowd favorite at his live shows:

It's made up of four letters and it rhymes with truck Scream it when you're happy, or even when you're stuck

Surjo shared the full album on SoundCloud (listen here).

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This article is an original summary of the album release. Track descriptions are drawn from the release notes.