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Khruangbin performing at The Anthem, 2022Īfter Khruangbin toured with Bonobo, they featured their song "Calf Born in Winter" on his 2014 Late Night Tales compilation. Before you even start, you have to know what you’re experimenting with first.” Ī notable part of the band's visual style is the black wigs that Lee and Speer wear on stage, and during promotional interviews and photoshoots. I used to be in bands where was like, ‘Man, we’ve gotta think outside the box!’ And all I’m thinking is: ‘You guys don’t even know.’ Music should never be just for the sake of being experimental. “It’s like, ‘This is what we do, and we’re not gonna try and go outside the box too much. "When we first started the band, we wanted to have a formula,” he says. Speer described the band's creative process as focused. The band's name symbolizes the international set of influences that shaped the band's formation. Speer said that, had they had the foresight to predict the band's success, they might not have chosen a name that was so difficult to pronounce. When asked to play their first gig, Lee, who was learning to speak Thai at the time, decided they should use her favorite Thai word "khruangbin" ( Thai: เครื่องบิน RTGS: khrueang bin), which means "aeroplane", as their name. The band has a long-term working relationship with Houston-based engineer Steve Christensen. The barn, located in the 300-person town of Burton, Texas, would become the site of all future Khruangbin recording sessions. Upon their return, they asked Johnson to join the band as drummer, to play simple break-beats under the guitar and bass. Speer and Lee went to a barn where they developed the bass-heavy, psychedelic sound that became the basis of the band's aesthetic. The tour motivated the two of them to make music together more seriously, leading them to form Khruangbin. In 2010, both Lee and Speer went on tour with Yppah who opened for Bonobo. Speer already had the gig as guitarist for Yppah and had encouraged Lee to audition. After playing for six months, she auditioned and got the gig to be the bassist for Yppah on his upcoming tour. In 2009, Lee started to learn the bass with guidance from Speer. In 2007, Speer met Lee through friends, where they initially connected over a shared love of Afghan music and Middle Eastern architecture.

The church employed Speer as the guitarist and Johnson as the organist.

John's Methodist Church gospel band in Houston, Texas. Speer and Johnson met in 2004 while playing in Rudy Rasmus' St.