4/6/2024 0 Comments Devendra banhart bioIt’s a total delight and an album you need to own. Cripple Crow has a bedrock of Banhart’s own unique take on acoustic folk, but also drifts into southern soul, country, ragged funk, rock ‘n’ roll and just plain crazy pop music. Maybe that’s down to Devendra’s ranging across styles, genres and even languages. However, last year’s Cripple Crow was a revelation and for an album of 22 tracks and over 70 minutes, it hardly struck a bum note. Rejoicing in the Hands and Nino Rojo were both patchy affairs, containing both moments of beauty and average-ness. He’s nothing if not prolific – two of these albums came out a few months apart in 2004. Since then he’s done three albums for XL (in the UK anyway), and I won’t use words like ‘new weird America’ or ‘freak folk’ to describe them. Discovered by Michael Gira who put out his first album Oh Me Oh My…. I’ll not bother with the bio details, suffice to say born Texas, raised Venezuela, now LA-resident. If I was forced to choose which current XL artist was my favourite, I’d probably have to say Devendra Banhart.
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