A Memory Held Too Long

Khruangbin have just dropped the second single and video from their upcoming fourth album, A La Sala, due on 5th April. 

 

(The pedant in me is wishing that they'd released their fourth album on the fourth day of the fourth month, but what the heck.)

May Ninth is a beautiful, introduced with bird song and a (seemingly) effortless rolling groove, before Laura and Mark's vocals drift lazily in. I first heard this at night, pitch black outside with the rain hammering against the windows and I was immediately transported to sun-kissed golden fields...oh, hang on, that'll be the deceptively simple animated video. Whatever, it works it's magic over 3 and a bit all too short minutes.

 

If you loved this and the preceding single, A Love International, then pre-ordering A La Sala will be a given. 

 

If, like me, you've been switched on to Khruangbin relatively late, then you will also benefit from their back catalogue. Stretching far beyond the three studio albums into live albums, remixes and one-off singles, there's plenty to explore and enjoy.

 

 

 May Ninth 

Waiting for May to come 

Hoping for the rain 

A memory held too long 

Just another day 

 

Oh what it could be 

Oh what a dream to me 

 

Memory burned and gone 

A multicolored grey 

Waiting for May to come 

Happy for the rain