{"product_id":"khruangbin-a-la-sala-soleil-coloured-vinyl-lp","title":"Khruangbin - A La Sala Soleil Coloured Vinyl LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff6600;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDESCRIPTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eBrand new \u0026amp; sealed. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKhruangbin’s fourth studio album, A La Sala (“To the Room” inSpanish), is an exercise in returning in order to go further, and doing so on your own terms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt continues the mystery and sanctity that is the key to how bassist Laura Lee Ochoa, drummer Donald “DJ” Johnson, Jr. and guitarist Mark “Marko” Speer approach music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf 2020’s Mordechai, the last studio LP Khruangbin made without collaborators, was a party record that enhanced the band’s musical reputation far and wide, then A La Sala is the measured morning after. It’s a gorgeously airy record completed only in the company of the group’s longtime engineer Steve Christensen, with minimal overdubs. It’s a window 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe trio’s collective musical DNA, the years spent constructing it in Houston’s local-meets-global cultural stew, ensures the band continues to sound like no one but itself. A cascade of crisp melodies emanates from Marko’s reverb-heavy electric, dancing gently around Laura Lee’s minimalist almost-dub bass triangles, while DJ’s drums serve as the tightened-up pocket and unwavering dance-floor on which all this movement takes place. Yet there’s a freshness to A La Sala’s instrumental interactivity, less concerned with getting further out than going deeper in, a profound desire to celebrate the world’s external wonders.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhere prior albums strived towards music’s polyglot edges, such inquiries now sound like beloved intimacies. Here, Khruangbin’s sonic touch-points —whether spaghetti-western film scores (on “Fifteen Fifty-Three”), West African discos (on “Pon Pón”), G-funk fantasias (“Todavía Viva”), living room dancing moments (the first single, “A Love International”), or even ambient found-sounds (on “Farolim de Felgueiras and throughout the album”) — are ingrained characteristics. This is who they are! Unique and huge (and growing), ambitious and driven.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKhruangbin’s aspirations and commitment to playful creativity even extends to A La Sala’s Vinyl LPpackages, of which there will be seven distinctive covers and color-sets. Designed by the band using Marko’s multitude of travelog photos, the images are windows from the band’s living room onto a set of daydreams, scenes of impossible skies, external glances that illuminate what is going on inside. Each cover image comes with a matching color Vinyl LP. These too are all about looking out and looking back, in order to better look ahead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVinyl Colour\/Design may slightly vary from the stock images shown on the website for this item.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff6600;\"\u003eRELEASE DETAILS\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat: \u003c\/strong\u003e[Album], [Reissue], [Coloured]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReleased:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2024\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff6600;\"\u003eTRACKLISTING\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pdp-jss-groupItem-131\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"pdp-jss-groupTitle-132\"\u003eLP - SIDE A\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003col class=\"pdp-jss-groupTrackList-133\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"pdp-jss-listItem-134\"\u003eFifteen Fifty-Three\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"pdp-jss-listItem-134\"\u003eMay Ninth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"pdp-jss-listItem-134\"\u003eAda Jean\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"pdp-jss-listItem-134\"\u003eFarolim de Felgueiras\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"pdp-jss-listItem-134\"\u003ePon Pón\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"pdp-jss-listItem-134\"\u003eTodavía Viva\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pdp-jss-groupItem-131\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"pdp-jss-groupTitle-132\"\u003eLP - SIDE B\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003col class=\"pdp-jss-groupTrackList-133\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"pdp-jss-listItem-134\"\u003eJuegos y Nubes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"pdp-jss-listItem-134\"\u003eHold Me Up (Thank You)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"pdp-jss-listItem-134\"\u003eCaja de la Sala\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"pdp-jss-listItem-134\"\u003eThree From Two\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"pdp-jss-listItem-134\"\u003eA Love International\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"pdp-jss-listItem-134\"\u003eLes Petits Gris\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Rock-Pop-Alt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42037450473590,"sku":"DOC357LPC1","price":59.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0613\/3009\/6246\/files\/DOC357LPC1.jpg?v=1742532409","url":"https:\/\/rockaway.com.au\/products\/khruangbin-a-la-sala-soleil-coloured-vinyl-lp","provider":"Rockaway Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}