While The Universe Smiles Upon You often slides by, frictionless, on grooves and guitars that sound like they’ve been doused in Vaseline, don’t be tricked for a moment into thinking that it qualifies as easy listening.

Khruangbin, the Texas and London-based trio’s debut album is a subtle dance, a constellation of small movements and highly nuanced arrangements that unfolds seamlessly, like ripples on the water. Even as it hypnotizes us, slinking forward on the weightlessness of crisp drums and rolling bass figures, Universe reveals tiny thorns and eddies of tension beneath its soothing surface.

Vinyl, LP, Reissue, Repress, 180g

Tracklist:
A1 Mr. White 4:58
A2 Two Fish And An Elephant 3:33
A3 Dern Kala 3:39
A4 Little Joe And Mary 5:08
A5 White Gloves 3:38
B1 People Everywhere (Still Alive) 2:39
B2 The Man Who Took My Sunglasses 2:13
B3 August Twelve 6:13
B4 Balls And Pins 3:28
B5 Zionsville 4:11
B6 Bin Bin X 2:51