For a guy who gets tagged with a lot of limiting descriptors — "freak folk," "hippie" and so forth — Devendra Banhart doesn't like to let his music sit in any spot for long. His catalog, which now ...

Last month folk artist Devendra Banhart announced the release of his new album, Mala, his first since 2009’s What Will We Be. Today Banhart revealed a bit more about the impending studio effort, ...

I've warmed up to Devendra Banhart's new album, Mala. The folkie freak, who hates when he's referred to as anything resembling a hippie, cruises lazy Tiki bar rhythms and tequila sunrise musings on ...

Folk vagabond Devendra Banhart has shared more details about his new album, Mala, his first studio album since 2009's What Will We Be. The record will be out on March 12 through his new home label ...

Sorry, Devendra, we can hardly hear you beneath those scarves. On Mala, his eighth album (Nonesuch Records, $16), L.A.’s prince of freak folk—who, incidentally ...

Devendra Banhart gave us a brief sample of his upcoming record, Mala, through “Für Hildegard von Bingen” earlier in the month, and now here’s our second serving. “Never Seen Such Good Things” pairs ...

Calling Devendra Banhart’s music freak folk is both lazy and condescending. But damn if that dude’s not freaky and folky. On his eighth album, and first since 2009’s What Will We Be, the ...

It’s been about four years since the once-prolific Muppet-voiced neo-hippie wanderer Devendra Banhart released his last album, and Mala, his long-awaited new one, arrives next week. Banhart has ...

DEVENDRA Banhart has often had to deal with quite a hefty weight of expectation, which seems strange. An artist who usually gives the impression that he writes what he likes depending on whatever ...

It’s why “Golden Girls” - the dense, brief opener to the Venezuelan-American songwriter’s Nonesuch Records debut and first album in four years - is so surprising, with its repetitive “get on the ...

Discursive, meandering, a little ramshackle, this latest album from the Venezuelan-American singer-songwriter is a frequently lovely, pied beauty. Amid the pretty cul-de-sacs and wafting, slightly ...