Brijesh Sarin’s ‘Bachpan’ and the Long Road to End Of Teenage.

Some albums are made from a single idea. Others take years to figure out what they want to become. Brijesh Sarin’s End Of Teenage belongs firmly to the second category. Released on June 24, 2026, the Ahmedabad-based singer-songwriter’s Pop-Rock album looks back at the phases, experiences and emotional chaos that come with being a teenager. But this isn’t simply nostalgia packaged into songs. It is Brijesh taking a long look at who he was, what he experienced, and how those years shaped the person he eventually became. At 27, he is revisiting a chapter of his life while also acknowledging everything he has carried forward from it.

His relationship with music started remarkably early. At three, hearing a dholak on the way back from Haridwar stirred something in him that never quite went away. By 11, his parents enrolled him in guitar classes, and at 12 he wrote “Bachpan”, a song that would eventually become part of End Of Teenage. Music continued alongside his studies, and by 2015 Brijesh was recording, performing with his band, uploading YouTube covers, winning battle of the bands across the state and appearing on 9XM’s Sur Se Shine Tak. An EC Engineer by education, he never really saw music as something separate from himself. Formal training was limited, but curiosity kept him learning in his own way. As Brijesh puts it, “There is no start there is no end! Music is what I breathe.”

The album has been a long time coming. The idea existed for seven years, while around four years went into recording and shaping it, with the entire project eventually finding its home at Brijesh’s own Oxygen Studios in Ahmedabad. He recorded, mixed and mastered the album himself, giving the project a distinctly personal and DIY character. That approach also produced one of the album’s most relatable stories. The guitars on “Toota” and “Tu Mera Kyu Nahi” were originally demo recordings. Brijesh tried repeatedly to recreate them, but the polished versions kept losing something the demos had naturally captured. Eventually, he stopped fighting it and used the demos in the final tracks. They had the character and feel he wanted. Honestly, sometimes the demo knows.

His musical influences are just as varied as the journey behind the album. They range from John Mayer, Green Day and Foo Fighters to Coldplay, Imagine Dragons, Arijit Singh, Prateek Kuhad, Dan + Shay, Zara Larsson, Pink Floyd and Papon. Yet End Of Teenage isn’t an attempt to recreate any of them. It is Brijesh processing his own memories through Pop-Rock, guitar and piano, while holding on to the emotions that made those memories matter in the first place. Even the album’s story can be summed up in the word he chose himself: resilience.

And perhaps that is where End Of Teenage finds its real heart. Nostalgia can be tempting when you are looking back at the person you used to be, but Brijesh isn’t interested in staying there. His favourite quote says it perfectly: “Nostalgia is a wonderful place to visit but not to stay!” End Of Teenage may look back, but its creator is still moving forward. For someone who says music has no beginning or end, the album feels less like a conclusion and more like another chapter in a story that is still being written.