The members of Khruangbin are fond of joking that they would have chosen a name that was much easier to pronounce if they'd known when they were starting out in Houston 15 years ago 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 sophomore 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 indeed want to do, and Khruangbin has since become one of the 21st century's most unique and heartening indie success stories by sticking to a vision that is entirely Khruangbin's and no one else's and will one day see the trio named as a reference and departure point for other bands who cop its style. If other band's 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.

TRACKLISTING:

1. Como Me Quieres
2. Lady and Man
3. Maria Tambien
4. August 10
5. Como Te Quiero
6. Shades of Man
7. Evan Finds the Third Room
8. A Hymn
9. Rules
10. Friday Morning