It’s been four years since the duo that broke out of Peshawar to make their mark on Pakistan’s pop music scene released their debut album. After several award nominations (and winning some too), a unique musical style that became their signature and having released popular songs like King of Self, My happiness, Freestyle Dive and Have To Let Go Sometime, Sajid and Zeeshan are back with their second offering, The Harvest.

Speaking about his band’s second album that is due to be released soon, Sajid said, “The Harvest is about the learning experience. It is the second step forward from the first album, One Light Year at Snail Speed (OLYASS).”

“From the seed to the growth to the harvest: it’s the whole process. What you have is not only the end result but also the whole process of how you get there. We are all a product of our environment, without a state of play, nothing can be achieved,” he added.

Sajid is also quick to point out that the difference between OLYASS and The Harvest is that “there is a change in composition. I’ve pushed myself a little more, tried to keep the same feel but experiment a bit as well.” That was evident in a music video they released six months ago, featuring a song from their new album, Walk on Air. Having said that, there are similarities as well, “in song writing, the theme is the same: self-growth, self-development, making everything right and basically learning how to take responsibility for most of the things that go wrong in your life — starting from the self.”

Between releasing the first album four years ago and now, what has changed? “The first album was different because we were fresh out of eggshells; we didn’t now what was going on or how we were going to do it,” said Sajid, “this time we knew. At the same time we didn’t let that dictate our artistic expression.”

Along with music, Sajid Ghafoor mentioned that he is currently in the process of taking some very serious steps to help budding musicians nurture and develop their artistic expression.

Sajid also mentioned that when OLYASS was released, his parents were alive. “Before the second album was completed, I had lost them both. I think, this album is different that way as well — the way I felt, how and the intensity of it has changed.” He’s dedicated The Harvest to his parents but even within that body of work, there’s a song he wrote especially for them: I hope we remain.