Khruangbin & Leon Bridges: Texas Sun (EP) [DEAD OCEANS]

Why you'll love it

Four songs of dusty, slow-rolling Texas soul from two acts at the top of their game, made after a tour together in 2019. The title track became a slow-burning summer-playlist staple.

This edition

• 12-inch EP, 4 tracks
• Dead Oceans pressing
• Includes the title track, "C-Side" and "Conversion"

About the EP

Texas natives Leon Bridges and Khruangbin (he's from Fort Worth, they're from Houston, although they sound more like they're from Austin) had such a good time on tour together in 2019 that they decided the experience was worth commemorating for posterity in the studio. The result is the quietly perfect four-track EP that arrived in early 2020 as Texas Sun, an easygoing slice of slightly psychedelic soul tailor-made for long summertime drives with the windows down and a warm breeze wafting through your hair.

Khruangbin's dusty twang merges with Bridges's classicist R&B croon so well here that you can't help but wish they'd put a bit more material to tape, which is no doubt why they regrouped in the studio in 2022 for the similarly loveable Texas Moon EP.

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Tracklist

Listen

On Dead Oceans, first out in 2020.