Hamnawa Select May '24

This month’s selections of the best Pakistani music result in a very long playlist (48 songs). There are a few Coke Studio songs on this list, which is unsurprising. But Coke Studio is playing almost underdog to three big album releases from Umair, Asim Azhar and Talhah Yunus. All of these artists have strong independent followings and have produced compelling bodies of work. Laila and I have done our best to comb through these albums, as well as a healthy output of other independent releases.

This playlist is available as usual, on Spotify. But this time we’re also trying a playlist on YouTube! If you prefer for us to continue the YouTube playlists please write in to let us know. It’s a fair bit of work so I’d like to continue if there is demand.