Description

Driving anywhere in Texas can cost you half a day, easy. For example, itrsquoll take you over four hours just to get from RampB singer Leon Bridgesrsquo 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 yoursquore in. And itrsquos all baking under the Texas Sun that lends its name to Bridges and Khruangbinrsquos new collaborative EP.ldquoBig sky country, thatrsquos what they call Texas,rdquo Khruangbin bassist Laura Lee says. ldquoThe horizon line goes all the way from one side to another without interruption. Therersquos something really comforting about that.rdquoOn Texas Sun, these two members of the statersquos musical vanguard meet up somewhere in the middle of that scene, in the mythical nexus of Texasrsquo past, present, and futuremdasha dreamy badlands where genres blur as seamlessly as the terrain. It calls equally to the cowboys bootscooting at Billy Bobrsquos in Fort Worth, the choppedandscrewed hiphop fans rattling slabs on the southside of Houston, the artschool kids dropping acid in Austin, the crosscultural progeny who grew up on listening to both mariachi and posthardcore 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 statersquos rightfully celebrated sunsets.A journey through homesick reminiscences, backseat romances, and latenight 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 yoursquore goingmdashespecially if yoursquore in no particular hurry to get there. Khruangbin & Leon Bridges EP is available for home delivery from Vinyl Records London, only £9