"The name means 'airplane' in Thai," says Khruangbin's Laura Lee. "We were listening to a lot of Thai music when we started the band, and I tried to learn Thai at the time, and khruangbin was one of the first words I learned, and it was really fun to say. And it seemed fitting — because we were listening to Thai music at the time — to name ourselves after what we were inspired by." From Khruangbin's 2018 release, Con Todo El Mundo, available on Dead Oceans.