Khun Narin’s Electric Phin Band return with their first new album in a decade III – and their first ever recorded inside a professional studio. Produced by Tommy Brenneck (known for his work with Amy Winehouse, Charles Bradley, Sharon Jones, Beyoncé, Mark Ronson, and The Budos Band) at Diamond West, the album captures the band with a depth and clarity never heard before – without sacrificing the ecstatic propulsion that defines them. The group does not simply perform songs; they create momentum.
Khun Narin’s Electric Phin Band are a multi-generational psychedelic powerhouse from rural Thailand whose ecstatic, amplifier-blown folk music has quietly become one of the most unlikely global cult phenomena of the last decade.
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A musician, writer, and arts enthusiast in general, Angel Abaya came up in the arts scene of Boise, Idaho, where she played in several bands and, as a young adult, worked her way up to program director at a local dance company. Looking to expand her horizons and opportunities, she moved to Los Angeles, where she found work as a freelance writer, sometimes covering music.
That’s also where she met Sean Guerin of De Lux; the two bonded over an affection for off-kilter pop and vintage gear. These interests and some of Abaya’s background, including reading a lot of music press releases that oversold the work in question, heavily inspired the go-for-broke, live-up-to-the-description spirit of her larger-than-life alter ego, Gelli Haha. Produced and…
Swiss group L’Eclair‘s music is an uncategorizable mixture of pretty much any sound that has a groove, from Krautrock and electro-disco to house and Madchester. After releasing an analog synth-heavy one-off collaboration with Klaus Johann Grobe in 2024, L’Eclair issued their most guest-heavy effort to date, Cloud Drifter.
As ever, no one influence reigns supreme on this album, but it leans a little heavier on synth-funk than the group’s past records. The brief “Run” is a sort of early-’80s mutant disco flashback, with slap bass and percolating synths backing Gelli Haha’s nonchalant vocals. “Vertigo” is a dazzling space disco odyssey impressively sequenced in 3/4 time. “Replica M001” additionally takes an unconventional approach to rhythm, opening…