Khruangbin Announces New Album ‘A La Sala’ Out April 5th – Shares Lead Single “A Love International”

Photo Credit: David Black

Khruangbin returns today with the announcement of A La Sala or “To the Room” in Spanish — the band’s fourth studio album and first LP in four years out April 5th on Dead Oceans in partnership with Night Time Stories Ltd. Also out today is lead single “A Love International” illustrating the reflective, celebratory nature of A La Sala with its wistful vocal flutterings underneath a propelling guitar and bass duet. After a decade spent cultivating an elusive, yet extraordinary musical path, “A Love International” arrives as both a nostalgic and poised step forward for Khruangbin – a vista for a band posing subtle questions about the surreal nature of art’s representation and one’s own reality. Watch the video for “A Love International” directed by Scott Dungate and listen here following the track’s debut on Apple Music’s New Music Daily.

As their own live show grows its steadfast following, with Khruangbin unveiled on the Bonnaroo and Boston Calling 2024 lineups last week, the band has in turn established themselves as a ubiquitous cultural force, earning co-signs from musicians across genres and generations including Questlove, Flea, Tina Weymouth, and David Byrne, and earning countless syncs in popular television, (A Murder at the End of the World, Ramy, Barry, Outerbanks), movies (The Holdovers, Palm Springs) and major advertisements (Corona, Propel).

There are seven different covers that will adorn A La Sala’s various vinyl editions available for pre-order which offer a throughline from the music into Khruangbin’s current frame. Designed by the band using Marko’s multitude of travelog photos, and inspired by the surrealism of Belgian artist René Magritte, there are windows from the band’s living room onto a set of daydreams, scenes of impossible skies, external glances illuminating what is going on inside. These directly coincide with David Black’s images of DJ, Laura Lee and Marko which accompany A La Sala, and see the band and a window, being both the observer and the observed. A La Sala is all about looking out and looking back, in order to better look ahead.

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