{"product_id":"khruangbin-a-la-sala","title":"Khruangbin - A LA SALA","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eKhruangbin’s fourth studio album, A LA SALA (“To the Room” in Spanish), is an exercise in returning in order to go further, and doing so on your own terms. It continues the mystery and sanctity that is the key to how bassist Laura Lee Ochoa, drummer Donald “DJ” Johnson, Jr. and guitarist Mark “Marko” Speer approach music. If 2020’s Mordechai, the last studio LP Khruangbin made without collaborators, was a party record that enhanced the band’s musical reputation far and wide, then A La Sala is the measured morning after. It’s a gorgeously airy record completed only in the company of the group’s longtime engineer Steve Christensen, with minimal overdubs. It’s a window onto the bounties powering Khruangbin’s vision, a reimagining and refueling for the long haul ahead. A La Sala scales Khruangbin down to scale up, a creative strategy with the future in mind.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eKhruangbin’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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTRACKLISTING\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSIDE A\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1.Fifteen Fifty-Three\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2.May Ninth\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e3.Ada Jean\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4.Farolim de Felgueiras\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e5.Pon Pón\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e6.Todavía Viva\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSIDE B\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1.Juegos y Nubes\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2.Hold Me Up (Thank You)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e3.Caja de la Sala\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4.Three From Two\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e5.A Love International\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e6.Les Petits Gris\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePRODUCT DETAILS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArtist:\u003c\/strong\u003e  Khruangbin\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLabel:\u003c\/strong\u003e  Dead Oceans\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e New \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Funk, Soul \u0026amp; Disco\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e  Vinyl LP\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCat Number:\u003c\/strong\u003e  \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDOC357LP-C6\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReleased: \u003c\/strong\u003e 5th April 2024\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PIAS","offers":[{"title":"Standard LP","offer_id":47795843334425,"sku":"DOC357LP","price":28.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1700\/1349\/files\/digitalartDOC357.Khruangbin.ALS.3000_1.jpg?v=1705406602","url":"https:\/\/www.sliderecordshop.com\/products\/khruangbin-a-la-sala","provider":"Slide Record Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}