This is more like it. While 2005’s Cripple Crow was cluttered with cameos and was unabashedly indulgent, even by freak-folk standards, Devendra Banhart’s new disc not only coheres, it comes across as a thoroughly envisioned and executed work, maybe even […]
At age 24, Devendra Banhart has emerged as a leader of the new new-folk movement, a tyrannically whimsical subgenre with adherents who favor sweet, slightly unfocused songs about nature or the human condition, often sung to modified four-tracks in sunny, […]
On his website, young DIY folkie Devendra Banhart cites the blues-steeped likes of Fred Neil, Karen Dalton and Mississippi Fred McDowell as influences; he even quotes McDowell on “Roots…”, the second track on his debut disc. Yet as his falsetto […]
