Khruangbin - A La Sala

New Vinyl  656605165714 1. Fifteen Fifty-Three2. May Ninth3. Ada Jean4. Farolim de Felgueiras5. Pon Pón6. Todavía Viva7. Hold Me Up (Thank You)8. Caja de la Sala9. Three From Two10. A Love International11. Les Petits Gris Khruangbin’s fourth studio album, A La Sala (“To the Room” inSpanish), is an exercise in returning in order to go further, anddoing so on your own terms. It continues the mystery and sanctitythat is the key to how bassist Laura Lee Ochoa, drummer Donald“DJ” Johnson, Jr. and guitarist Mark “Marko” Speer approach music.If 2020’s Mordechai, the last studio LP Khruangbin made withoutcollaborators, was a party record that enhanced the band’s musicalreputation far and wide, then A La Sala is the measured morningafter. It’s a gorgeously airy record completed only in the companyof the group’s longtime engineer Steve Christensen, with minimaloverdubs. It’s a window onto the bounties powering Khruangbin’svision, a reimagining and refueling for the long haul ahead. A LaSala scal