Khruangbin - The Universe Smiles Upon You II (TSUY II) Khruangbin

Khruangbin have re-recorded their beloved debut album, once a cult classic, now to be known as TUSUY 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.
Khruangbin have sold over 520k units in the US & over 187k units in the UK across their catalog, with multiple top 10 & 20 chart entries.
Variants include Classic Black and Limited-Edition White Vinyl with a new interpretation of the cover by original artist Samuel Muir.
Packaging also includes a gatefold jacket filled with photography documenting the unique recording environment by long-time collaborator Jackie Lee Young.
Over 7.5M Monthly Listeners on Spotify, London is the band’s top market and the UK is the #2 Market with nearly 800k listeners in the last 28 days
The band played their biggest London show to date this year in Gunnersbury Park following notable WW touring history including multiple sold out nights at the Hollywood Bowl, Forest Hills Stadium & more
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.”
The Universe Smiles Upon You ii was recorded on January 4-6, 2025, in the same family barn of guitarist Mark Speer, across the same dates where TUSUY was first conceived ten years earlier. Though the conditions were the same–dirt floor, brutally cold, minimal sound isolation, all takes live–the songs aren’t. They’re re-approached, some changed more than others, harnessing the lightning-in-a-bottle energy of TUSUY while discovering what would be unique this time around, in this stage of the band’s life.
The result moves like ripples on the water across ten hypnotizing tracks, the barn creating a sense of spaciousness, serenity and creative freedom, nearby wildlife (listen out for the birds on “August Twelve ii”), rattles and creaks of the barn and all. It’s a tapestry of small movements in nuanced arrangements, slowly revealing the new life, stories and character of someone you’ve met again for the first time in ten years.