Khruangbin * A LA SALA [Vinyl Record LP]

Khruangbin * A LA SALA [Vinyl Record LP]

Various Color Options Available

Dead Oceans, 04/05/2024

Media: Mint, Black / Yellow & Orange / Blue & Green Colored, Vinyl Record LP

Sleeve: Mint, Factory Sealed

• 1 Fifteen Fifty-Three
• 2 May Ninth
• 3 Ada Jean
• 4 Farolim de Felgueiras
• 5 Pon PÓN
• 6 Todavía Viva
• 7 Juegos y Nubes
• 8 Hold Me Up (Thank You)
• 9 Caja de la Sala
• 10 Three from Two
• 11 A Love International
• 12 Les Petits Gris

The trio's collective musical DNA, the years spent constructing it in Houston's local-meets-global cultural stew, ensures the band continues to sound like no one but itself. A cascade of crisp melodies emanates from Marko's reverb-heavy electric, dancing gently around Laura Lee's minimalist almost-dub bass triangles, while DJ's drums serve as the tightened-up pocket and unwavering dance-floor on which all this movement takes place. Yet there's a freshness to A La Sala's instrumental interactivity, less concerned with getting further out than going deeper in, a profound desire to celebrate the world's external wonders. Where prior albums strived towards music's polyglot edges, such inquiries now sound like beloved intimacies. Here, Khruangbin's sonic touch-points - whether spaghetti-western film scores (on "Fifteen Fifty-Three"), West African discos (on "Pon Pón"), G-funk fantasias ("Todavía Viva"), living room dancing moments (the first single, "A Love International"), or even ambient found-sounds (on "Farolim de Felgueiras and throughout the album") - are ingrained characteristics. This is who they are! Unique and huge (and growing), ambitious and driven. Khruangbin's aspirations and commitment to playful creativity even extends to A La Sala's vinyl packages, of which there will be seven distinctive covers and color-sets. Designed by the band using Marko's multitude of travelog photos, the images are windows from the band's living room onto a set of daydreams, scenes of impossible skies, external glances that illuminate what is going on inside. Each cover image comes with a matching color vinyl. These too are all about looking out and looking back, in order to better look ahead.

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