Name: Texas Sun EP
Brand: Khruangbin

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

DOC214lp

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Black

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2020-02-07

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

656605151410

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

DOC214cd

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656605151427

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Khruangbin

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Dead Oceans

Khruangbin is a US band hailing from Houston, Texas, with roots in Burton, Texas. Their name translates to "airplane" in Thai, paying homage to the Thai rock/funk that inspired their formation. The airplane symbolizes the diverse range of influences that have shaped their music. Deep in the countryside of Texas, they create and record all of their material in a tranquil barn setting which serves as a constant source of inspiration.

Driving anywhere in Texas can cost you half a day, easy. For example, it’ll take you over four hours just to get from R&amp;B singer Leon Bridges’ hometown of Fort Worth down to Houston, where the psychedelic wanderers in Khruangbin hail from. The state is vast, crisscrossed with rugged expanses of road flanked by limestone cliffs and granite mountains, forests of pine and mesquite, miles of desert or acres of sprawling grassland, all depending on what part you’re in. And it’s all baking under the Texas Sun that lends its name to Bridges and Khruangbin’s new collaborative EP.

“Big sky country, that’s what they call Texas,” Khruangbin bassist Laura Lee says. “The horizon line goes all the way from one side to another without interruption. There’s something really comforting about that.” 

On Texas Sun, these two members of the state’s musical vanguard meet up somewhere in the middle of that scene, in the mythical nexus of Texas’ past, present, and future—a dreamy badlands where genres blur as seamlessly as the terrain. It calls equally to the cowboys boot-scooting at Billy Bob’s in Fort Worth, the chopped-and-screwed hip-hop fans rattling slabs on the southside of Houston, the art-school kids dropping acid in Austin, the cross-cultural progeny who grew up on listening to both mariachi and post-hardcore out on the Mexican borders of El Paso. All of these things, overlapping in a multicolored melange, purple hues as vivid and unpredictable as one of the state’s rightfully celebrated sunsets. 

A journey through homesick reminiscences, backseat romances, and late-night contemplations, the kind of record made for listening with the windows down and the road humming softly beneath you. Like the highways that inspired it, Texas Sun is guaranteed to get you where you’re going—especially if you’re in no particular hurry to get there.

Tracklist: 1. Texas Sun 2. Midnight 3. C-Side 4. Conversion