Have we talked about the new Devendra Banhart record yet?

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

If we have, I'm sure someone will link me to the thread. But whaddyall think?

I'm wondering if I'd like it more if heard this one first, but it's definitely not as good as Rejoicing in the Hands. There are three terrific songs on this new one, but a lot of it is - dare I say - Dullsville. More of the same. He needs to show another side - like that awesome Abra project! When's he gonna put out a record of THAT stuff?

Anyway, it's still good - just not as all-the-way-through impressive as the last...

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 6 August 2004 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link

A new one already? Jeez, I barely heard "RitH" for the first time this week! (It's good too.)

― o. nate (onate), Saturday, 7 August 2004 02:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Abra rocks! But then I'm a big fan of the cabaret style.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 7 August 2004 03:05 (nineteen years ago) link

or maybe i'm just a sucker for a skinny-ass white boy in a dress doing that "wade in the water" style shit.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 7 August 2004 03:08 (nineteen years ago) link

David Sedaris does a better Billie Holiday though.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 7 August 2004 03:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Especially his rendition of the Oscar-Meyer theme song.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 7 August 2004 03:09 (nineteen years ago) link

OMG, I'm so totally gay!

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 7 August 2004 03:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Devendra Barnhart sounds like a coked up Billie Holiday - at first that annoyed me, but now I kind of like it.

― o. nate (onate), Saturday, 7 August 2004 03:11 (nineteen years ago) link

In an interview in the wire he was goin on about "dude, everyone like holes themselves up in this unnatural studio thing without any external noises, you should be able to hear thre trees and wind and shit on record.."

I deeply resent liking records created by a fuckin hippy.

― matthew james (matthew james), Saturday, 7 August 2004 17:16 (nineteen years ago) link

he's right though

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 7 August 2004 17:18 (nineteen years ago) link

twelve years pass...

New album is very sparse but there are a couple of songs in there which I'm loving.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 27 September 2016 05:46 (seven years ago) link

two years pass...

had lost track for a few years, but the new one is very pleasant

― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Tuesday, 17 September 2019 11:34 (four years ago) link

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.