Khruangbin
Mali’s “Hendrix of the Sahara”, Vieux Farka Touré returns to Australia with new album ‘Les Racines’ in tow.
Legendary Malian guitarist, Vieux Farka Touré, along with his band, has announced a full Australian tour in 2023 from February 24 until March 11. One of the world’s most respected guitarists and musicians, Touré returns to Australia with his full band to perform from his extensive back catalogue and critically acclaimed new LP, ‘Les Racines’, …
News: As one heavenly body sets, another rises: Khruangbin and Leon Bridges announce their ‘Texas Moon’ EP – watch the video for ‘B-Side’
TO FLIP the orbs from the bright orange to the white, and after that impossibly catchy previous A in particular, “Texas Sun”, Khruangbin are once again joining forces with Leon Bridges for an EP outing; this time entitled Texas Moon, out on February 18th. And after the bright sunbliss of that quartet of songs that …
SEE: Khruangbin release video for ‘Dearest Alfred’ – and a Knxwledge mix, too
MORDECHAI, Khruangbin’s stunning third album from last summer, set the seal on their position in the music world; a critically adored brew of psych, funk, disco, dub and global influences, it was seriously great. Seriously great. Theyve taken a slight return to one of Mordechai’s most emotive tracks, “Dearest Alfred,” a track we noted our …
NEWS: Khruangbin next to offer us their ‘Late Night Tales’ – hear their Kool & The Gang cover
LATE NIGHT TALES, the long-running and superb compilation series curated so far by pretty much every cool band of our times, from Belle & Sebastian to Air, from Jon Hopkins to MGMT, from The Flaming Lips to Nils Frahm and, most recently, Hot Chip, has announced that the latest in the series will see Texan …
ALBUM REVIEW: Khruangbin – ‘Mordechai’
THEY weren’t an outfit that was hyped into the musical consciousness worldwide by a huge machine, fully packaged and billboarded; rather Houston’s Khruangbin have seeped into the world gradually but effortlessly via all the coolest of channels. First breaking through in the UK on the back of their inclusion on Bonobo’s LateNightTales mix compilation, they …