Flying Wig, by Devendra Banhart

Flying Wig

by Devendra Banhart

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1.	Feeling 06:19	buy track
2.	Fireflies 04:51	buy track
3.	Nun 03:28	buy track
4.	Sight Seer 05:03	buy track
5.	Sirens 04:28	buy track
6.	Charger 04:18	buy track
7.	Flying Wig 05:32	buy track
8.	Twin 06:00	buy track
9.	May 04:39	buy track
10.	The Party 03:21	buy track

about

Flying Wig is an album of recurrent dualities; a can of paradoxes, a box of worms. The redwood and pine-surrounded cabin studio where Banhart was “constantly listening to The Grateful Dead” somehow birthed something slick, modernist, city pop-adjacent and Eno-esque.

Banhart's eleventh record, it's the actualisation of a “precious friendship” with the acclaimed solo artist, multi-instrumentalist, producer and Mexican Summer stable-mate Cate Le Bon — a coming together prophesied by the mirror-image titles of their early solo albums (Banhart’s 2002 Oh Me Oh My to Le Bon’s 2009 Me Oh My) and a tenderness built on crude haircuts (“we finally met, soon after she was cutting my hair with a fork and that was that”) and home-made tattoos — but never previously translated into the recording studio.

“It’s about transmuting despair into gratitude, wounds into forgiveness, and grief into praise,” - the product of a ritualistic creative practice that melts down and re-casts as it mulls, the stuff of sadness beautified as it changes shape — culminating in a record that “sounds like getting a very melancholic massage, or weeping, but in a really nice outfit… if I’m going to cry, I wanna do it in my best dress.”

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released September 22, 2023

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Devendra Banhart Los Angeles, California

Singer/songwriter, poet, artist and actor who was born in Houston, TX, and moved with his mother to her native Caracas, Venezuela. The family relocated to Los Angeles during his teenage years; it was there that he learned to speak English, skateboard, and play music. Banhart first began to perform in public while attending the San Francisco Art Institute. Flying Wig - out September 22. ... more

discography

Flying Wig

Sep 2023
Refuge

Aug 2021
Vast Ovoid

Jul 2020
It's Not Always Funny

Jul 2020
Let's See

Jun 2020
Love Song (Helado Negro Remix)

Jan 2020
Ma

Sep 2019
Ape In Pink Marble

Sep 2016
Mala

Mar 2013

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