Khruangbin formed in the late 2000s in Houston with Speer as the uniting force. At the time, he and Johnson already had a dynamic, having played in the same gospel band for years. He later met Lee through mutual friends, and after connecting on a shared love of Afghan music, Speer st...
Years ago, one day on a lunch break, Lee accompanied a friend to Speer’s house in Houston. He was watching a documentary on Afghan music; Lee was an art history major with a focus on art of the ancient Near East. It was so specific a reference, Lee recalls, that they bonded ...
THEY weren’t an outfit that was hyped into the musical consciousness worldwide by a huge machine, fully packaged and billboarded; rather Houston’s Khruangbin have seeped into the world gradually but effortlessly via all the coolest of channels. First breaking through in the UK on the back ...
Khruangbin formed in the late 2000s in Houston with Speer as the uniting force. At the time, he and Johnson already had a dynamic, having played in the same gospel band for years. He later met Lee through mutual friends, and after connecting on a shared love of Afghan music, Speer st...