Steve Christensen, Khruangbin’s longtime producer, explained it to me like this: Just about every day, he gets hit up on Instagram by folks asking how to achieve a particular Khruangbin sound. Their gear and their instruments are simple and straightforward to the point of being borderline ascetic. (Ochoa, for example, has not changed the strings on her bass since 2010, when the group first formed.) “I know it sounds so simple,” Christensen says, “but if they’re not playing as a trio, it just doesn’t sound like KB.”We are having trouble retrieving the article content. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.

---

Persons: Steve Christensen, Khruangbin’s, Ochoa, Johnson, Speer, Christensen, ” Christensen, they’re Organizations: The