Description
No matter the genre, a certain type of music will forever be specific to the American experience: road trip music. Now with their second collaborative EP Texas Moon, neo-soul crooner Leon Bridges and psychedelic funk-rock trio Khruangbin deliver a different kind of road trip music.
Texas Moon is a project ideally listened to on a breezy, isolated, moon-lit drive home on country backroads. Each song is a lullaby of loungey and covertly seductive tones crafted to accompany late-night contemplative trips and, well, other after-hour activities. Texas Moon is the five-track sister project to Bridges and Khruangbin’s unexpected-yet-successful 2020 EP Texas Sun.
While much of the music is slow-tempoed and leisurely, true to Bridges’ discography, “B-Side” is perhaps the most recognizably Khruangbin song on the EP. The jam is underscored by jaunty guitar riffs, undulating bass, and a lively beat enhanced by Laura Lee’s breathy backup vocals. It’s the perfect companion song to Texas Sun’s “C-Side,” a dreamy track whose watery melodies were a way of showing off the musicians’ playful side.
Not only does Texas Moon show Bridges and Khruangbin in musical harmony, but it also demonstrates that their collaboration has had a distinct impact on each songwriter’s sound.
