Khruangbin - Mordechai - 1xCD

Khruangbin has always been multilingual, weaving far-flung musical languageslike East Asian surf-rock, Persian funk, and Jamaican dub into mellifluousharmony. But on its third album, it’s finally speaking out loud. Mordechaifeatures vocals prominently on nearly every song, a first for the mostlyinstrumental band. It’s a shift that rewards the risk, reorienting Khruangbin’stransportive sound toward a new sense of emotional directness, without losingthe spirit of nomadic wandering that’s always defined it. And it all started withthem coming home.By the summer of 2019, the Houston group—bassist Laura Lee Ochoa, guitaristMark Speer, drummer DJ Johnson—had been on tour for nearly three-and-ahalfyears, playing to audiences across North and South America, Europe, andsoutheast Asia behind its acclaimed albums The Universe Smiles Upon You andCon Todo El Mundo. They returned to their farmhouse studio in Burton, Texas,ready to begin work on their third album. But they were also determined toslow