Khruangbin release new album ‘A LA SALA’ via Dead Oceans + video for ‘Hold Me Up (Thank You)’ out now

Khruangbin have released their first album in four years – A LA SALA – via Dead Oceans. A gorgeously airy album, it was made only in the company of the group’s longtime engineer Steve Christensen, with minimal overdubs. It is a porthole 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. 

The band has shared the video for ‘Hold Me Up (Thank You)’, a song with familial sweetness in its spare lyrics, feeding off the rhythm section’s sturdy funk shuffle, and a chorus on which the guitar evokes both sides of the Atlantic in confident unshowy rhythm. 

With festivals across the summer including Coachella, Bonnaroo, Latitude and Nos Alive, Khruangbin also recently announced details of their UK/EU headline tour. The sixteen date run – including three nights at London’s Eventim Apollo – is on sale now. Click HERE for more information and see below for all Khruangbin live dates.

From the get-go, Khruangbin’s journey has been emphatically its own: a sound and visual representation with few precedents, ignoring pop expectations, relying only on internal inspirations, and a multitude of visions. It’s a mindset of penetrating the self, connecting to the surrounding world, modeling your own life experiences. The building blocks then for A LA SALA’s 12 songs were jigsaw pieces found in Khruangbin’s creative past, parts of the band not lost, but not yet tapped into. Having stockpiled ideas originally set down as off-the-cuff recordings (voice-memos made at sound-checks, on long voyages, as absentminded epiphanies), they began fitting those pieces together in the studio for A LA SALA. 

Over the last two years Khruangbin has remained unwavering in their musical vision, selling out shows at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall, Los Angeles’ Greek Theatre and London’s Alexandra Palace. They’ve released five live LPs showcasing their stage prowess – featuring storied guests such as Toro y Moi, Men I Trust and Nubya Garcia – collaborated with Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Touré honoring Vieux’s late father, Ali Farka Touré,  with the album Ali highlighted everywhere from The New York Times and NPR (“labyrinthine fusion of dub, blues and Malian grooves,”), to GQ who says “there’s a placelessness to the band Khruangbin that, counterintuitively, gives them their gravity.”That same year the band released their second collaborative EP with Leon Bridges, the sultry, chart-topping Texas Moon, which arrived to widespread acclaim from The New York Times, NPR, Uproxx, Vulture, FADER while pushing the boundaries of psychedelic R&B. 

A LA SALA TRACKLIST
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’ 

 

KHRUANGBIN LIVE

4/14/24  – Coachella – Indio, CA
4/16/24 – The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park – San Diego, CA*
4/18/24 – Alex Madonna Expo Center – San Luis Obispo, CA*
4/19/24 – Alex Madonna Expo Center – San Luis Obispo, CA*
4/21/24 – Coachella – Indio, CA
4/23/24 – Brooklyn Bowl – Las Vegas, NV *
4/24/24 – Brooklyn Bowl – Las Vegas, NV *
4/26/24 – Revel – Albuquerque, NM *
4/27/24 – Revel – Albuquerque, NM *
5/21/24  – The Met – Philadelphia, PA ^
5/22/24  – The Met – Philadelphia, PA ^
5/23/24 – The Met – Philadelphia, PA ^
5/25/24 – Boston Calling – Boston, MA
5/26/24 – Saratoga Performing Arts Center – Saratoga Springs, NY ^
5/28/24 – Rockin’ at the Buffalo AKG – Buffalo, NY ^
5/29/24 – Jacobs Pavillion – Cleveland, OH ^
5/31/24 – History – Toronto, ON ^
6/1/24 – History – Toronto, ON ^
6/2/24  – History – Toronto, ON ^
6/4/24 -The Masonic Temple Theatre – Detroit, MI ^
6/5/24 – KEMBA Live! – Columbus, OH ^
6/7/24 – The Salt Shed – Chicago, IL ^
6/8/24 – The Salt Shed – Chicago, IL ^
6/9/24 – The Salt Shed – Chicago, IL ^
6/11/24 – Red Hat Amphitheater – Raleigh, NC ^
6/12/24 – ExploreAsheville.com Arena – Asheville, NC ^
6/14/24 – Bonnaroo – Manchester, TN
7/4/24 – Roskilde Festival – Roskilde, Denmark
7/6/24 – Rock Werchter – Werchter, Belgium
7/7/24 – Down The Rabbit Hole – Ewijk, The Netherlands
7/10/24 – Jardin Sonore – Vitrolles, France
7/11/24 – Musilac – Aix-les-Bains, France
7/12/24 – BILBAO BBK LIVE – Bilbao, Spain
7/13/24 – Nos Alive Festival – Lisbon, Portugal
7/16/24 – Zagreb SRC Salata – Zagreb, Croatia
7/17/24 – METAStadt Open Air – Vienna, Austria
7/18/24 – Colours of Ostrava – Ostrava, Czech Republic
7/20/24 – Electric Castle – Bontida, Romania
7/23/24 – Paléo Festival – Nyon, Switzerland
7/24/24 – Luzern Live Festival – Lucerne, Switzerland
7/26/24 – Latitude Festival – Suffolk, UK 
8/14/24 – Greek Theatre – Berkeley, CA %
8/15/24 – Greek Theatre – Berkeley, CA %
8/16/24 – Greek Theatre – Berkeley, CA %
8/18/24 – Edgefield – Troutdale, OR %
8/19/24 – Edgefield – Troutdale, OR %
8/21/24 – Kettlehouse Amphitheater – Bonner, MT %
8/22/24 – Kettlehouse Amphitheater – Bonner, MT %
8/24/24 – Granary Live – Salt Lake City, UT %
8/26/24 – Mission Ballroom – Denver, CO %
8/27/24 – Red Rocks – Morrison, CO %
8/28/24 – Red Rocks – Morrison, CO %
9/20/24 – Forest Hills Stadium – New York, NY +
9/21/24 – Forest Hills Stadium – New York, NY +
9/23/24 – The Anthem – Washington, DC $
9/24/24 – The Anthem – Washington, DC $
10/2/24 – The Factory – St.Louis, MO $
10/3/24 – The Factory – St.Louis, MO $
10/9/24 – Saenger Theatre – New Orleans, LA $
10/10/24 – Saenger Theatre – New Orleans, LA $
10/31/24 – AFAS Live – Amsterdam, The Netherlands %
11/1/24 – AFAS Live – Amsterdam, The Netherlands %
11/2/24 – Lotto Arena – Antwerp, Belgium %
11/4/24 – L’Olympia – Paris, France %
11/5/24 – L’Olympia – Paris, France %
11/7/24 – Tempodrom – Berlin, Germany %
11/8/24 – Tempodrom – Berlin, Germany %
11/11/24 – Milan, Italy – Alcatraz %
11/12/24 – Halle 622 – Zurich, Switzerland %
11/15/24 – OVO Hydro – Glasgow, UK %
11/17/24 – o2 Apollo – Manchester, UK %
11/18/24 – o2 Apollo – Manchester, UK %
11/20/24 – Eventim Apollo – London, UK %
11/21/24 – Eventim Apollo – London, UK %
11/22/24 – Eventim Apollo – London, UK %
11/24/24 – 3Arena – Dublin, Ireland %
 

* w/ Hermanos Gutiérrez
^ w/ John Carroll Kirby
% w/ Peter Cat Recording Co. 
+ w/ Men I Trust
$ w/ Arooj Aftab

 

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