{"id":6503,"date":"2025-11-06T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/khruangbin-discover-a-new-universe\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T15:10:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T15:10:00","slug":"khruangbin-discover-a-new-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/khruangbin-discover-a-new-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Khruangbin Discover A New \u2018Universe\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2024\/03\/Khruangbin-General-2-David-Black.jpg\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>Khruangbin (photo: David Black)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Khruangbin offer a completely new take on their 2015 debut album, <em>The Universe Smiles Upon You<\/em>, with a re-recorded version out now digitally through Dead Oceans. Work on the project commenced on the actual 10th anniversary of sessions for the original album and was tracked in the same central Texas barn owned by guitarist Mark Speer\u2019s parents.<\/p>\n<p>To commemorate the album\u2019s birthday, the Grammy-nominated trio of Speer, bassist Laura Lee and drummer DJ Johnson initially considered digging through their archives for <em>Universe<\/em> outtakes or recasting the songs with orchestral arrangements. Instead, they opted to present the songs in different and updated forms while also reconfiguring the track list, which omits opener \u201cMr. White\u201d and substitutes in the contemporaneous bonus track \u201cBin Bin\u201d (in turn, \u201cMr. White\u201d replaces \u201cBin Bin\u201d on the Japanese edition of <em>The Universe Smiles Upon You ii<\/em>, titled <em>M. Blanc<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/11\/charli-xcx-john-cale-wuthering-heights\/\">Charli xcx, John Cale Team For \u2018Wuthering Heights\u2019<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/11\/gorillaz-idles-new-single\/\">Gorillaz Find \u2018God\u2019 With IDLES\u2019 Joe Talbot<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/11\/journey-farewell-tour\/\">Journey Saying Goodbye On Final Frontier Tour<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cGetting to the barn is a mission,\u201d Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2024\/04\/khruangbin-album-interview\/\">told SPIN<\/a> of the studio in 2024. \u201cIt\u2019s not close. When we\u2019re there, we stay there, which is why it\u2019s good because it puts us away from things. You can really lock into the task at hand. Logistically, it\u2019s harder to do things out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"20cuFhgPLEo\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Elsewhere, the shimmering \u201cPeople Everywhere (Still Alive)\u201d is extended to triple its original running time, while \u201cWhite Gloves\u201d borrows a newfound disco beat and a seven-minute-plus \u201cTwo Fish and an Elephant\u201d coasts on Johnson\u2019s brush-stroked drums and warm atmospherics. The result is both psychedelic and spiritual, and filled with happy accidents such as a meadowlark\u2019s birdsong captured by the microphones during \u201cAugust Twelve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Khruangbin-produced new video for \u201cWhite Gloves\u201d is out now. Those desiring <em>The Universe Smiles Upon You ii<\/em> in physical form, which will be released Dec. 5, can pre-order it by clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.khruangbin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMark\u2019s a stickler about, if we did it before, let\u2019s try to do something different,\u201d Johnson told SPIN about Khruangbin\u2019s modus operandi in the studio. \u201cEven in the way I approach something that seems so simple as a drum fill, he\u2019s always listening. He\u2019s always challenging: what can you do differently? How can you go deeper? We realize the more popular this thing gets, it is influential and there may be things that pop up that kind of sound like what we\u2019re doing. It pushes us forward and makes us have to switch it up. You can\u2019t keep doing the same thing and expect it to be fresh, exciting and new. Mark\u2019s really keyed into that. He\u2019s always looking for combinations of things that have never been thought to be put together. That\u2019s what keeps things fresh.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Khruangbin began a small venue 10th anniversary <em>Universe<\/em> tour last night (Nov. 5) in Houston, and have dates on tap through Nov. 24-25 in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-here-is-the-track-list-for-the-universe-smiles-upon-you-ii\">Here is the track list for <em>The Universe Smiles Upon You ii<\/em>:<\/h2>\n<p>Little Joe and Mary<br \/>Balls and Pins<br \/>White Gloves<br \/>The Man Who Took My Sunglasses<br \/>People Everywhere<br \/>Bin Bin<br \/>August Twelve<br \/>Dern Kala<br \/>Two Fish and an Elephant<br \/>Zionsville<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khruangbin (photo: David Black) Khruangbin offer a completely new take on their 2015 debut album, The Universe Smiles Upon You, with a re-recorded version out now digitally through Dead Oceans.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3128,6,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-khruangbin","category-news","category-pushly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}