Hotly anticipated as one of 2024's best indie albums; Khruangbin’s fourth studio album, A LA SALA (“To the Room” in Spanish), is an exercise in returning in order to go further, and doing so on your own terms.
It continues the mystery and sanctity that is the key to how bassist Laura Lee Ochoa, drummer Donald “DJ” Johnson, Jr. and guitarist Mark “Marko” Speer approach music. If 2020’s Mordechai, the last studio LP Khruangbin made without collaborators, was a party record that enhanced the band’s musical reputation far and wide, then A LA SALA is the measured morning after.