Khruangbin

I beg your pardon, who on earth are you

some sort of AI manifestation, an ILX regen, 'adam', created in the image of a music board where hating on bands isn't the vibe, maaan

enjoy your shitty jam band m8

my fairly recently launched search for the perfect 2br co-op in jackson heights is already feeling dead in the water--not because stuff is getting snapped up overnight anymore but because i'm afraid interest rates will be sky-high before sellers figure shit out and stop expecting people to offer 120% of asking off the rip.

― adam, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 22:49 (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

our hero adulting to the vibesy strains of khruangbin

I mean it's so cool to go find ppls posts from an unrelated thread and drag them into the present thread for the sake of weak zings.

You were a joke when you started posting and you're a joke now.

And i dngaf about this band at the end of the day.

oh heaven help me the milquetoasts of ILX are daggers drawn in the Senate

The fact that you think you're a senator around here speaks volumes.

I'm fuckin Caesar m8

hey lj remember when you used to burst into threads and completely derail them to encourage everyone to talk about you instead? Khruangbin are a pleasant band to listen & chill out to imo

i have a theory that kruangbin are as huge as they are (devervedly so imho—no lj) in part due to the youtube algorithm. one of those bands that would pop up in my youtube sidebar constantly years before i ever listened to them

My theory has to do with the increasing legalization of weed in the past few years...

I found them from the Tiny Desk Concerts - which I clicked on because YouTube wanted me to listen to Superorganism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K49QKVR0p0

If you type "*band drawn from Ilxor subconsious*" into Dall-e Mini you get Superorganism. They're a smudged, nightmarish evocation of Ilxor's subconscious. Hip, but too hip. Quirky, but too quirky. Young, but too young. They are the band that would appear if you gave an alien sculptor a description of Stereolab.

Khruangbin's Tiny Desk Concert has eleven million views, which is something. They sound like the kind of music the Youtube sidebar features - dusty 1970s psych-folk-rock crate finds. Watching the concert again again I'm nostalgia for the days of "the cat album", the "man running along a road" album, the "jazz pianist who started in his thirties" album, the "naked woman sitting on a big stuffed alpaca" album, Music for Nine Post Cards, "Plastic Love" etc.

I find it weird that this band would draw heat. They are cool and stylish and have a fun sound. They're nice to listen to and a bit limited in range. They don't seem extremely consequential to me, and they don't seem like they are treated as some kind of music-changing force by anyone.

It came out last Summer but loving Σtella's v Khruangbinesque album 'Up And Away' produced by Redinho.

Really enjoyed the album with Vieux Farka Toure, feel like these guys are at their best collaborating with others.