{"product_id":"khruangbin-a-la-sala","title":"Khruangbin - A LA SALA","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe title makes it clear. \u003cem\u003eA La Sala\u003c\/em\u003e (“To the Room” in Spanish), the fourth studio album by Khruangbin, is an exercise in returning in order to go further, and do so on your own terms. It extends the air of mystery and sanctity that’s key to how bassist Laura Lee Ochoa, drummer Donald “DJ” Johnson, Jr. and guitarist Mark “Marko” Speer approach music. Yet if 2020’s Mordechai, the last studio album Khruangbin made without collaborators, was a party record whose ensuing post-lockdown tour enhanced the band’s musical reputation far and wide, \u003cem\u003eA La Sala\u003c\/em\u003e is the measured morning after. It’s a gorgeously airy album 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. \u003cem\u003eA La Sala\u003c\/em\u003e scales Khruangbin down to scale up, a creative strategy with the\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efuture in mind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is also a response to the unique moment Khruangbin finds itself in now: following a decade spent cultivating extraordinary music paths, beginning a year when they'll perform for more people, in more iconic spaces, staging a live show that pushes a creative envelope peculiar to them alone. (Look for the band at major festivals and venues near you.) 2024 feels like both marker and pivot, cementing Khruangbin’s stature as a commercially and critically successful group that continues to be guided by creative possibilities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe building blocks for the album’s 12 songs were jigsaw pieces found in Khruangbin’s creative past. 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. Which parts were apt? Which could be massaged and stretched out? Which inspired new sections or rhythms or musical interactions? Once more, Khruangbin’s familial DNA kicked in. Layer-by-layer, the intimate work, rework and re-rework bore new fruit. They also brought back a strategy once foundational to their records: seeding an album with field recordings. — (via Khruangbin, Bandcamp)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1836174753\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e↓\u003cbr\u003eLabel: Dead Oceans – DOC357LP\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Vinyl, LP, Album\u003cbr\u003eCountry: US\u003cbr\u003eReleased: Apr 5, 2024\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Funk \/ Soul\u003cbr\u003e⦿\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFile under: Funk \/ Soul\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dead Oceans","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43506844074142,"sku":"656605165714","price":45.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0584\/5434\/3838\/files\/a4088322578_10.jpg?v=1712644447","url":"https:\/\/theanalogvault.mom\/products\/khruangbin-a-la-sala","provider":"The Analog Vault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}