Khruangbin & Leon Bridges - Texas Sun

Khruangbin & Leon Bridges Texas Sun Label Dead Oceans Erstveröffentlichung 28.08.2020 Format 12" Lieferzeit 4 – 7 Werktage Preis 17,95 € (inkl. MwSt. zzgl. Versand)

Ganz ehrlich, den Hype um die texanischen Psychedelic-Schrammler Khruangbin konnte ich nicht wirklich nachvollziehen, allzu belanglos gerieten die zweifellos liebevoll gemachten Esoterik-Pretiosen. Da hat ganz klar ein guter Vokalist gefehlt und den hat man mit Soul-Shooting Star Leon Bridges (ebenfalls Texaner) für die vier Songs dieser sehr schönen EP an Bord. Statt wie schlaffe Grateful Dead-im-Thailand-Urlaub-Jams klingt das dann schon eher wie Bill Withers, Curts Mayfield oder meinetwegen auch Michael Kiwanuka auf ganz weichen Drogen. Okay, schläfrig sind diese neuen Songs auch, aber eben doch etwas besser durchblutet. Charakteristisch sind ausgeruhte Klöppel- und Conga-Percussion, verhallte WahWah-Effekte hinter angedubtem E-Bass, wahlweise auch mal mit Vibraphon (sehr schön jazzig) oder Pedal Steel (noch schöner). Gefällt mir klar besser als Khruangbin ohne Sänger vielleicht reicht es ja bald für mehr als nur vier Songs? (Joe Whirlypop)

Driving anywhere in Texas can cost you half a day, easy. For example, it'll 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 you're in. And it's all baking under the Texas Sun that lends its name to Bridges and Khruangbin's new collaborative EP. "Big sky country, that's what they call Texas," Khruangbin bassist Laura Lee says. "The horizon line goes all the way from one side to another without interruption. There's something really comforting about that." On Texas Sun, these two members of the state's 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 boot-scooting at Billy Bob's 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 multicolored melange, purple hues as vivid and unpredictable as one of the state's 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 Sun is guaranteed to get you where you're going-especially if you're in no particular hurry to get there.

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