The album features nine songs, as per its title, and explores various themes such as political satire, social inequality and historic stories from the Mughal era.

[1] Released in August 2014, had opened to wide response and gained more than 3 million views in YouTube and Facebook; its success attributed to the "lyrics which uses colloquial Malayalam references from Cochin" resulted in being an instant hit with the local fanbase.

[3] The title Navarasam is based on the Indian concept of the Rasa (aesthetics) and a song also released in the same name, serving as a tribute to Kathakali, a popular classical dance in Kerala.

[1] The video directed and edited by Littil Swayamp captures the expressions, emotions, moments, places and people of Kerala, which gained accolades from audience.

[11][5] Post the album-release, the makers also unveiled the studio versions of the tracks in YouTube following its launch on 21 October, while they had planned for the videos which will be directed by established filmmakers.

[12] On the music video, Nambiar said that the visuals will have "fire-starter quality", further saying that "I deliberately wanted to get out of a narrative based approach and try and do something completely different in the treatment.

[18][19] Vipin Nair of Music Aloud called the album as a "solid debut from Thaikkudam Bridge that manages to produce songs fitting the diverse vocal range of its singers, all the while staying anchored to the rock base.

Commenting about the visuals, he said that "it almost looks like something out of a horror movie with all the dark effects, and the image of the grim reaper with the trademark sickle and black cloak".

[23] The video song of "Navarasam" also gained positive response from notable members of the film fraternity, including composer A. R. Rahman and actor Kamal Haasan,[24] who praised the visuals and music and called it as a "commendable effort".

[26] The album's success prompted the band perform at international tours, including the 2019 edition of Summerfest (a 11-day music festival held at Wisconsin, United States, which was certified by the Guinness World Records as "The World’s Largest Music Festival"), thus becoming the first Indian band to be performed at the event.

[29] Two of the compositions from Navarasam, including "Aarachar" and the titular track, gained the most consumer response and were used in the Indian web series, The Family Man.

[6] Govind also recreated the tune phrase from the song "Urumbu" and included in "Aagasam" from Soorarai Pottru composed by G. V. Prakash Kumar.