KHRUANGBIN AND MEN I TRUST - LIVE AT RBC ECHO BEACH

Released: 11/08/23

Khruangbin’s Live At series of LPs traces the Texas band’s flight plan through the last few years, offering a taste of some of their favourite cities, stages and nights. And so it’s not only fitting that the trio’s first-ever official live releases would be albums paired with their tourmates – artists whose music they love and admire, friends who’ve become family along the way – but also a great to discover new bands. Case in point being Live at RCB Echo Beach, through which I’ve discovered the excellent Canadian three-piece Men I Trust, a fantastic Tinder Sticks-y minimalist chamber pop group with a distinctively French feel (which makes sense given that they hail from Montreal). Both bands’ live sets are captured beautifully on the record, and there’s a real sense of Khruangbin's now-famous bewitching live energy, which has rightly helped to make them one of the most feted groups of the last five or so years.