“The indefatigable drummer and dhol player Sunny Jain is an unrepentant maximalist.”

“Jain makes everything fire and flow, roll and combust. His drumming is never static or simply ‘in the pocket’; it’s in constant go mode: rolls rattling, beats careening, grooves always pressing, pushing for ecstatic release.”

Top 10 Best Albums 2020: Global Fusion 

5/5 stars

“Epic in every sense, Wild Wild East deserves to put Jain up there alongside Nitin Sawhney as a global musical alchemist and cultural agent provocateur. One of the leading figures in North America’s burgeoning Asian music scene.”

“Jain manages to find a work that in some way demands the listener and in that interaction he is able to give notions of truly novel music and soundscapes.”

9/10 stars

“Sunny Jain paints a rich canvas...whether mingling rhythms from Pakistan film soundtracks with spaghetti western motifs (‘Immigrant Warrior’) or spicing ragas with twisting, turning time signatures (‘Osian’; ‘Baaghi’) the energetic, groove-riding results prove utterly compelling throughout.”

“The Best Party Band In Years.” Listen and watch Red Baraat on NPR: Tiny Desk Concerts, All Songs Considered, Mountain Stage, World Café, globalFEST 2011 + more.

“Red Baraat’s celebratory Festival of Colors”

Wild Wild East is a tremendous document of the immigrant’s multifaceted identity, bringing generations together in a joyful noise.

“Genre-crossing soundscapes of Wild Wild East, which incorporates everything from jazz rhythms to shoegaze guitars to Middle Eastern brass and beyond.”

“Jain purposefully recontextualizes these ideas on Wild Wild East, breaking open the image of the swaggering American cowboy with his acidic, twangy, propulsively hypnotic songs. It's an inspired cinematic concept that conjures kaleidoscopic images from filmmakers like Alejandro Jodorowsky, Quentin Tarantino, and Robert Rodriguez; filmmakers who similarly throw music, pop culture, and their own distinctive cultural backgrounds into a blender to create something new.”

4.5/5 stars.