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Driving anywhere in Texas can cost you half a day, easy. For example, itll take you over four hours just to get from R&B singer Leon Bridges 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 youre in. And its all baking under the Texas Sun that lends its name to Bridges and Khruangbins new collaborative EP. Big sky country, thats what they call Texas, Khruangbin bassist Laura Lee says. The horizon line goes all the way from one side to another without interruption. Theres something really comforting about that. On Texas Sun, these two members of the states musical vanguard meet up somewhere in the middle of that scene, in the mythical nexus of Texas past, present, and future – a dreamy badlands where genres blur as seamlessly as the terrain. It calls equally to the cowboys bootscooting at Billy Bobs in Fort Worth, the chopped-and-screwed hip-hop fans rattling slabs on the southside of Houston, the art-school kids dropping acid in Austin, the cross-cultural progeny who grew up on listening to both mariachi and post-hardcore out on the Mexican borders of El Paso. All of these things, overlapping in a multicoloured melange, purple hues as vivid and unpredictable as one of the states rightfully celebrated sunsets. A journey through homesick reminiscences, backseat romances, and late-night 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 youre going – especially if youre in no particular hurry to get there.
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