Khruangbin – A LA SALA (Soleil Edition)
- Label:
- Dead Oceans
- Art.No.:
- 09554786
- Cat.No.:
- DOC357LP-C1 / DOC 357
- Released:
- 2024
- Cover:
- Picture Special
- Format:
- LP
- Pressing:
- US - Original
- Genre:
- Black Grooves + Soul + Funk + Jazz + Folk / Country + Disco / Boogie + Blues / Songwriter + Psychadelic / Postrock + Alternative / Indie
Limited Edition 'Soleil' Orange & Yellow Swirl A/B Effect Colored Vinyl in Die Cut Cover.
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.
Title | Featuring | Producing | Time | ||
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A1. | Fifteen Fifty-Three | ||||
A2. | May Ninth | ||||
A3. | Ada Jean | ||||
A4. | Farolim de Felgueiras | ||||
A5. | Pon Pón | ||||
A6. | Todavía Viva | ||||
B1. | Juegos y Nubes | ||||
B2. | Hold Me Up (Thank You) | ||||
B3. | Caja de la Sala | ||||
B4. | Three From Two | ||||
B5. | A Love International | ||||
B6. | Les Petits Gris |