Pullman: Kabul

Kabul opens Pullman’s forthcoming album III with a sense of slow unfurling. The track begins in the group’s familiar ambient folk hush and gradually flowers outward, gathering additional layers of instrumentation and rolling, patient rhythms. 

Pullman’s lineage is deeply rooted in Chicago’s post rock history. Emerging in the late nineties as a studio-only acoustic supergroup, the project united Ken “Bundy K.” Brown (Tortoise, Directions in Music), Curtis Harvey (Rex), Chris Brokaw (Come), Doug McCombs (Tortoise, Eleventh Dream Day), alongside the late drummer Tim Barnes. 

Kabul is a composition that moves more by accumulation than by progression, with each component falling into place with a quiet necessity.

III arrives January 9th, 2026 via Western Vinyl, following Pullman’s two earlier releases on Thrill Jockey in 1998 and 2001. More than a return after two decades, III suggests continuity, as a band resumes a wonderful path that never really ended.








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