Breaking out the guitar and serenading a world broken by politics, pollution and pseudo-patriotic bigotries, we look on as Sankarshan Das gives us an incredible performance in the music video for his song “The World Peace Formula,” currently out and trending among the alternative folk community this season. While hardly a Hollywood-style exhibition of pomp and grandeur, there’s definitely something remarkably stimulating and thought-provoking about this new music video, and whether you’ve been listening to Das’ work up until now or not, I think it’s definitely worth taking a look at if you haven’t already in the past two months.

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This harmony is too infectious even for the most disconnected of music critics to resist, and though it’s created out of the simplest of components, this is perhaps why it feels as real and tangible as it does. “The World Peace Formula” is made accessible to us not through a lot of bells and whistles comprising its greatest climax, but instead through the credible words of its singer. He doesn’t have to get ridiculous with his poeticisms – in something as inviting as this, his very tone tells us the mood behind the lyrical content long before we’ve ever heard a single verse.

If you’ve been searching a last-minute pick-me-up to conclude 2020 with, I don’t know that you’re going to find anything quite as ace in the indie folk category beyond “The World Peace Formula” this December. Sankarshan Das is a poet of the most urbane quality in this performance, and while I don’t believe this to be the last time we’re going to hear something really inspiring out of his camp, “The World Peace Formula” is nonetheless a standard-raising release that has an opportunity to really affect people of all walks of life in this year and the next.

John McCall