Khruangbin & Leon Bridges-Texas Sun
C7675248764Khruangbin & Leon Bridges-Texas Sun
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C7675248764Khruangbin & Leon Bridges-Texas Sun
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C7675248764Khruangbin & Leon Bridges-Texas Sun
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About the album Driving anywhere in Texas can cost you half a day, easy. For example, itll take you over four hours just to get from R&B singer Leon Bridges hometown of Fort Worth down to Houston, where the psychedelic wanderers in Khruangbin hail from. Th
About the album Driving anywhere in Texas can cost you half a day, easy. For example, itll take you over four hours just to get from R&B singer Leon Bridges hometown of Fort Worth down to Houston, where the psychedelic wanderers in Khruangbin hail from. The state is vast, crisscrossed with rugged expanses of road flanked by limestone cliffs and granite mountains, forests of pine and mesquite, miles of desert or acres of sprawling grassland, all depending on what part youre in. And its all baking under theTexas Sunthat lends its name to Bridges and Khruangbins new collaborative EP.
Big sky country, thats what they call Texas, Khruangbin bassist Laura Lee says. The horizon line goes all the way from one side to another without interruption. Theres something really comforting about that.
OnTexas Sun, these two members of the states musical vanguard meet up somewhere in the middle of that scene, in the mythical nexus of Texas past, present, and future – a dreamy badlands where genres blur as seamlessly as the terrain. It calls equally to the cowboys bootscooting at Billy Bobs in Fort Worth, the chopped-and-screwed hip-hop fans rattling slabs on the southside of Houston, the art-school kids dropping acid in Austin, the cross-cultural progeny who grew up on listening to both mariachi and post-hardcore out on the Mexican borders of El Paso. All of these things, overlapping in a multicoloured melange, purple hues as vivid and unpredictable as one of the states rightfully celebrated sunsets.
A journey through homesick reminiscences, backseat romances, and late-night contemplations, the kind of record made for listening with the windows down and the road humming softly beneath you. Like the highways that inspired it,Texas Sunis guaranteed to get you where youre goingespecially if youre in no particular hurry to get there.
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Today two of the acts boldly leading Texas music into the future have delivered a second chapter of their groundbreaking collaboration, further extending the regions sonic possibilities. Grammy-winning R&B singer/songwriter Leon Bridges, from Ft. Worth, an
Today two of the acts boldly leading Texas music into the future have delivered a second chapter of their groundbreaking collaboration, further extending the regions sonic possibilities. Grammy-winning R&B singer/songwriter Leon Bridges, from Ft. Worth, and trailblazing Houston trio Khruangbin have joined together to record an album. The formulation of this short romantic detour from Leon Bridges and Khruangbin began, appropriately enough, on the road. After the fellow native Texans toured together, Khruangbin — a trio of instrumentalists who mix deep soul, funk, and rock with grainy, psychedelic finesse — recorded a track they thought would suit Bridges, an old soul with a fresh and personal perspective on traditional R&B. They met up in Houston and knocked out four songs with Bridges always at the fore, a change for the band who have previously used vocals only for shading.
They begin by unfurling a couple lazing grooves. The singer shifts from a getaway proposition on “Texas,” twanged out more than anything on the two proper Khruangbin LPs, to an idyllic reminiscence on “Midnight,” where the band enhance the mood with a sensitive touch. On “C-Side,”Laura Leeswitches it up with a bassline that bounces not unlike the oneNathan Eastplayed to propelDennis Edwards‘ “Don’t Look Any Further,” with Bridges set aloft by his “melanin lady.” “Conversion,” a redemptive ballad, slows it down as Bridges sings of newfound clarity, but the effect of his well-matched partners’ work is only a little less intoxicating than it is on the preceding numbers. (AllMusic)
Label: Dead Oceans, Columbia, Night Time Stories
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 RPM, EP
Released: 2020
Genre: Rock, Funk / Soul
Style: Psychedelic, Psychedelic Rock, Soul, Country Rock
File under: Psychedelic Rock
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