{"id":973877,"date":"2019-12-04T16:42:26","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T23:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=922360"},"modified":"2019-12-04T16:42:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T23:42:26","slug":"khruangbin-leon-bridges-preview-joint-ep-with-twangy-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/khruangbin-leon-bridges-preview-joint-ep-with-twangy-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Khruangbin, Leon Bridges Preview Joint EP With Twangy Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/leon-bridges-khruangbin-texas-sun.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Houston funk-soul trio Khruangbin have teamed up with fellow Texan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/leon-bridges\/\" id=\"auto-tag_leon-bridges\" data-tag=\"leon-bridges\">Leon Bridges<\/a> for <em>Texas Sun<span>,<\/span><\/em> a forthcoming four-song EP due in February 7th.<\/p>\n<p>The collaborative EP began during Bridges\u2019 2018 North American tour with the retro instrumental band, beginning with a one-off track that ended up yielding an entire EP\u2019s worth of material.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you just let the music do what it\u2019s supposed to do, it will reveal itself,\u201d Khruangbin\u2019s bassist Laura Lee said of the project. \u201cWe tried to take that same approach with Leon. For us, it was opening up our world to have another person in it. But all of it feels like Texas to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To coincide with the announcement, Bridges and Khruangbin have shared the project\u2019s title track, a meditative, twangy song that blends the band\u2019s Thai-funk proclivities with Bridges\u2019 rootsy vocals. \u201cCaressing you from Fort Worth to Amarillo,\u201d sings Bridges, as he breezily meditates &nbsp;on his homestate\u2019s natural wonders. \u201cCome on roll with me \u2019til the sun dips low.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBig sky country,\u201d Lee added, \u201cthat\u2019s what they call Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Texas Sun<\/em> will be in stores on February 7th.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/khruangbin-leon-bridges-ep-922360\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston funk-soul trio Khruangbin have teamed up with fellow Texan Leon Bridges for Texas Sun, a forthcoming four-song EP due in February 7th. The collaborative EP began during Bridges\u2019 2018 North American tour with the retro instrumental band, beginning with a one-off track that ended up yielding an entire EP\u2019s worth of material. \u201cIf you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 09:52:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}