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Throwing tinges of disco, techno, punk, funk, psychedelica, blues, roots, and virtually every corner of avant-garde experimentalism thought possible into one big, beautiful smoothie of pop music, Khruangbin are a genre perfectionist’s worst drug-induced nightmare come to life. Their third album, Mordechai, is perhaps their most ambitious, too – it’s a silky, slinking journey down a rabbithole of artistic exploration, at once loose and lucid and loveably raw, and surprisingly tight, with song structures that require multiple listens to fully understand and appreciate.

Though mostly defined to this point by their sprawling nuggets of instrumental gold, Khruangbin employ vocals more prominently than ever before on , gifting it a brightness in personality that previous records lacked.

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