Khruangbin: Con Todo El Mundo [DEAD OCEANS]

Why you'll love it

Con Todo El Mundo is the Houston trio's breakthrough: "Maria También", "Como Me Quieres" and "Evan Finds the Third Room" turned a cult band into festival headliners, and Pitchfork praised its "unique, psychedelic vibe that hangs between continents and eras."

This edition

• Single LP, 10 tracks
• Dead Oceans pressing of the 2018 album
• Includes "Maria También" and "Evan Finds the Third Room"

About the album

The members of Khruangbin are fond of joking that they would have chosen a name much easier to pronounce if they'd known, when they were starting out in Houston, that they would one day have an actual audience. That's kinda the way it works with Khruangbin, though. You come to them, not the other way around. And by the band's 2018 second album Con Todo El Mundo, it was becoming apparent that Khruangbin (whose name means "airplane" in Thai) was intent on doing its own dusty, twangy, globally minded desert-psych thing whether anyone else wanted to listen or not.

But listen other people did, and Khruangbin has since become one of the 21st century's most heartening indie success stories by sticking to a vision that is entirely its own. One day the trio will be a reference point for other bands trying to cop its style, if other bands can actually cop Khruangbin's style, which was already totally in its own orbit on Con Todo El Mundo ("with all the world") and has only become more refined and difficult to duplicate since.

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Tracklist

Listen

On Dead Oceans, first out in 2018.