
“A La Sala” serves as both an album title and statement of purpose for Khruangbin’s fourth studio album. As a child, bassist Laura Lee Ochoa used to scream the phrase, which means “To the room,” in order to rally her family together in the living room. Now, for Khruangbin, it signifies a return to a place close to where they began.
The band’s last two releases, 2020’s Texas Sun and 2022’s Ali, were collaborations with Leon Bridges and Vieux Farka Touré, respectively. Together with 2020’s Mordechai, which saw the predominantly instrumental band adding lyrics to their music to great effect, those projects found them evolving their sound and expanding their songcraft.
A La Sala, though, adopts a more back-to-basics approach, and from a production standpoint, it pays off. This is the cleanest that Khruangbin as a trio has ever sounded. Drummer Donald “DJ” Johnson serves as the backbone,...
The band’s last two releases, 2020’s Texas Sun and 2022’s Ali, were collaborations with Leon Bridges and Vieux Farka Touré, respectively. Together with 2020’s Mordechai, which saw the predominantly instrumental band adding lyrics to their music to great effect, those projects found them evolving their sound and expanding their songcraft.
A La Sala, though, adopts a more back-to-basics approach, and from a production standpoint, it pays off. This is the cleanest that Khruangbin as a trio has ever sounded. Drummer Donald “DJ” Johnson serves as the backbone,...
- 4/1/2024
- by Nick Seip
- Slant Magazine


Khruangbin have returned with “May Ninth,” the latest dreamy offering from their upcoming album, A LA Sala.
With soft, tender drums and an utterly warm guitar line from Mark Speer, “May Ninth” is a gentle and wistful ode to warmer days. “Oh what a dream to me/ Waiting for May to come,” Laura Lee and Speer sing in their respective octaves, conjuring the yearning early winter feeling where summer feels like lightyears away. Khruangbin may be longing for warmth and sunshine, but they create it from scratch on “May Ninth.” The song also arrives with an animated video helmed by Nathaniel Murphy, Jenny Lucia Mascia, and Jeremy Higgins; watch the official visualizer below.
“May Ninth” follows previous A LA Sala single “A Love International.” A LA Sala, which is out on April 5th via Dead Oceans, will be the trio’s fifth studio album. Their last effort was their collaborative LP with Vieux Farka Touré,...
With soft, tender drums and an utterly warm guitar line from Mark Speer, “May Ninth” is a gentle and wistful ode to warmer days. “Oh what a dream to me/ Waiting for May to come,” Laura Lee and Speer sing in their respective octaves, conjuring the yearning early winter feeling where summer feels like lightyears away. Khruangbin may be longing for warmth and sunshine, but they create it from scratch on “May Ninth.” The song also arrives with an animated video helmed by Nathaniel Murphy, Jenny Lucia Mascia, and Jeremy Higgins; watch the official visualizer below.
“May Ninth” follows previous A LA Sala single “A Love International.” A LA Sala, which is out on April 5th via Dead Oceans, will be the trio’s fifth studio album. Their last effort was their collaborative LP with Vieux Farka Touré,...
- 2/20/2024
- by Paolo Ragusa
- Consequence - Music

Abramorama has acquired the global theatrical rights — with the exception of the U.K. and Ireland — and direct-to-consumers rights to “Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande,” the award-winning music documentary directed by Tim MacKenzie-Smith. Abramorama will launch its U.S. and Canadian theatrical release in early April, following its upcoming U.K. theatrical release.
“Abramorama is honored to bring Tim MacKenzie-Smith’s heartfelt documentary about the band Cymande to fans around the world. Their music has influenced artists of all genres and is as impactful today as it was when first released. Cymande continues to reach new fans and I think 2024 is going to be a huge year for the band, with sold out concerts around the world, a new record coming out soon, and the global release of their documentary,” Abramorama’s president and head of international distribution Evan Saxon said in a statement.
A group of Black...
“Abramorama is honored to bring Tim MacKenzie-Smith’s heartfelt documentary about the band Cymande to fans around the world. Their music has influenced artists of all genres and is as impactful today as it was when first released. Cymande continues to reach new fans and I think 2024 is going to be a huge year for the band, with sold out concerts around the world, a new record coming out soon, and the global release of their documentary,” Abramorama’s president and head of international distribution Evan Saxon said in a statement.
A group of Black...
- 2/8/2024
- by Caroline Brew
- Variety Film + TV


Khruangbin has announced their latest album A LA Sala, which is out on April 5th via Dead Oceans. To share a “first glimpse of the bountiful vistas powering the band’s vision,” as their press release states, the band has also revealed A LA Sala’s lead single, “A Love International.”
A LA Sala aims to be an “exercise in returning” for the psychedelic rock trio of bassist Laura Lee, drummer Donald Johnson, Jr., and guitarist Mark Speer. Recorded with no outside collaborators besides the band’s engineer Steve Christensen, the album sees Khruangbin in their truest form — aiming to establish “a reimagining and refueling of the group for a long haul ahead.”
To coincide with the release’s release, Khruangbin have announced a three-night residency at the Bowery Ballroom in New York from March 27th to the 29th. They are also set to play Bonnaroo this June.
Check out “A Love International” below,...
A LA Sala aims to be an “exercise in returning” for the psychedelic rock trio of bassist Laura Lee, drummer Donald Johnson, Jr., and guitarist Mark Speer. Recorded with no outside collaborators besides the band’s engineer Steve Christensen, the album sees Khruangbin in their truest form — aiming to establish “a reimagining and refueling of the group for a long haul ahead.”
To coincide with the release’s release, Khruangbin have announced a three-night residency at the Bowery Ballroom in New York from March 27th to the 29th. They are also set to play Bonnaroo this June.
Check out “A Love International” below,...
- 1/16/2024
- by Emma Carey
- Consequence - Music

End Of The Road is a festival that keeps its promises. The cultured leftfield shindig – where croquet tournaments break out in forest glades and peacocks roam the trimmed lawns of Dorset’s Larmer Tree Gardens, unbothered by the experimental folk, rock, rap and electronic tomfoolery floating across the site – has been promising a weekend headlined by indie giants Pixies and Bright Eyes since 2020. Covid scuppered that event, and post-pandemic travel issues forced the 2021 bill to become more UK-based. But this year, Eotr puts its music where its mouth is at last, with plenty more curveballs thrown in to keep this crowd of discerning alternative music fans pleasingly off-balance.
The opening Thursday night bill is a brain-rattling case in point. On the main Woods Stage, LA’s Sudan Archives sets out to invent jig-hop, interspersing psychosexual ambient raps with ruined snippets of Irish folk played on the fiddle she brandishes throughout.
The opening Thursday night bill is a brain-rattling case in point. On the main Woods Stage, LA’s Sudan Archives sets out to invent jig-hop, interspersing psychosexual ambient raps with ruined snippets of Irish folk played on the fiddle she brandishes throughout.
- 9/5/2022
- by Mark Beaumont
- The Independent - Music
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