Balthvs

One Liner:  Khruangbin copycats from Columbia

Wikipedia Genre:  no Wikipedia, psych rock funk stuff they borrowed

Home: Columbia

Poster Position: 15
Both Weekends
Saturday at 3:05.

Tito's Tent.

Thoughts:  Hold on, man.  You're doing a Khruangbin copy on the same day as Khruangbin?  What are we doing here?  For real.  I've been going for an hour or so and this is just poor mans Khruangbin and similarly difficult to spell.  Is this a gathering of the Khrungalos?

They are Columbian and claim to fuse elements of "Middle Eastern Music, Disco, House, Funk, Psychedelia, Indie Rock, Surf and Cumbia into a cohesive whole."  It is cool sounding, but not sure how they get to just copy one of the headliners on their day and not get punched in the mouth.  The formed during the pandemic and have started churning out music, but I can't really find just a ton about them.

Three albums - 2020's MACROCOSM, 2022's Cause & Effect, and 2023's Third Vibration.  Top streamer is off of that first disc - "Johanna's Dream" with 3.1 million streams.

I mean, yeah.  That is cool.  Just seems really weird to have this sound done by another band right now.  I know it shouldn't - lots of rock bands sound similar, punk bands, rappers, pop stars, whatever.  But this vibe just feels singular right now and so it seems weird to hear a copycat.  Second most streamed is from a 2021 EP called Eclipse Solar, and the name of the song is "Eclipse" with 1.4 million streams.

Now we go a little more modern disco boogie on that one.  Not as good, in my opinion.  1k views of that video and zero comments?  That seems really odd.  Whatever.  Also, it just, like, ends.  Ah, that is because on the EP it transitions right into the next tune.

Sincerely doubt I would go watch this.  It is not bad, by any means.  Don't get me wrong.  Just feels wrong for it to even exist for me.