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and all the way to the frozen north

adding new blood and injecting a new burst of creative energy into the new album

it's nonetheless another of those highly rewarding albums that bears additional fruit with repeated spins

but also not deferring to anyone

and fifth gold record

Mordechai (Vinyl) AwaitingStock and all the way toKhruangbin has always been multilingual, weaving far flung musical languages like East Asian surf rock, Persian funk, and Jamaican dub into mellifluous harmony. But on its third album, it's finally speaking out loud. Mordechai features vocals prominently on nearly every song, a first for the mostly instrumental band. It's a shift that rewards the risk, reorienting Khruangbin's transportive sound toward a new sense of emotional directness, without