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Review by Johnny Black, first appeared in HiFi News.
I quite distinctly remember Mr Banhart irritating the bejeezeus out of me with his twee twitterings years ago and nothing's changed. According to Wikipedia, Banhart's songs have been described as psych folk, avant folk and freak folk but not, oddly, as witlessly feeble impersonations of Marc Bolan in his Tyrannosaurus Rex days. This album would make a pleasant collection of quirky acoustic instrumentals but Devendra has to go and spoil it by singing about how his "shadow lies wilting," and pronouncing the word smiling as 'smiolin' so he can make it rhyme with violin. It's intolerable. And that other word you're grasping for, Devendra is child, not 'chiold'.
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I quite distinctly remember Mr Banhart irritating the bejeezeus out of me with his twee twitterings years ago and nothing's changed. According to Wikipedia, Banhart's songs have been described as psych folk, avant folk and freak folk but not, oddly, as witlessly feeble impersonations of Marc Bolan in his Tyrannosaurus Rex days. This album would make a pleasant collection of quirky acoustic instrumentals but Devendra has to go and spoil it by singing about how his "shadow lies wilting," and pronouncing the word smiling as 'smiolin' so he can make it rhyme with violin. It's intolerable. And that other word you're grasping for, Devendra is child, not 'chiold'.