The Universe Smiles Upon You ii

Khruangbin revisit their debut album with The Universe Smiles Upon You II, bringing a decade of live experience, instinct, and playful reinterpretation to the original material. Recorded in the same family barn as the 2015 sessions, some tracks stay close to their original outlines, while others explore new rhythms, why rewrite the past when you could collaborate with it? - Flying Out

Khruangbin have re-recorded their debut album, once a cult classic, now to be known as The Universe Smiles Upon You ii. The recording reinvents the familiar songs, bringing the band’s masterful live show and a decade of touring the world to this genre-defining work.

If you could go back in time ten years, what would you want to tell yourself? This was a question Khruangbin posed to themselves when approaching the ten-year anniversary of their debut album, the once cult classic, now genre-defining work The Universe Smiles Upon You. “If we could go back and tell ourselves how much was going to happen to us after that record, what would we want to celebrate?” asked Laura Lee, bassist, vocalist, and founding member of the band. Instead, they thought: “Let’s do it again.”

Tracklist

1. Little Joe and Mary
2. Balls and Pins
3. White Gloves
4. The Man Who Took My Sunglasses
5. People Everywhere
6. Bin Bin
7. August Twelve
8. Dern Kala
9. Two Fish and an Elephant
10. Zionsville