This October, freak folk fans around the world will have even more reason to rejoice: At some point during that month, Devendra Banhart will release his latest album via Warner. The cover art for the album is above, and the album is titled:

What
Will We
Be

Intentionally or not, the title brings to mind the poetry of ee cummings (both in terms of the spacing and the content). The album was recorded with Band of Bees‘ Paul Butler, and features a backing band of Devendra regulars, including Megapuss‘ Greg Rogove, Little Joy’s Rodrigo Amarante, Luckey Remington, and Noah Georgeson.

Tracklisting:

01 Can’t Help but Smiling
02 Angelika
03 Baby
04 Goin’ Back
05 First Song for B
06 Last Song for B
07 Chin Chin & Muck Muck
08 16th & Valencia Roxy Music
09 Rats
10 Maria Leonza
11 Brindo
12 Meet Me at the Lookout
13 Walilamzi
14 Foolin’

Devendra Banhart is back on the scene with a new record ready to spin spin spin this Autumn. Recorded in a home in the northern California town of Bolinas, the currently untitled full-length was produced in tandem by Banhart and Paul Butler of Band Of Bees. The now beard-less “psychedelic minstrel” is also in the process of finding a label home for this, his sixth LP, having left XL. Video of Rejoicing In The Hands‘ “Sight to Behold” below.

Beck has announced that he is embarking on a new project entitled Record Club, and it’s a pretty exclusive club. Every week Beck will have an unrehearsed, one-day session with another artist (such as MGMT, Devendra Banhart, or Jamie Lidell) and record a classic album to be posted on his website. First up on the list of classics to be tackled is The Velvet Underground & Nico, and his version of “Sunday Morning” has already been released as a bonus 7″. This project brought to you, for free, courtesy of the internet. (via Rolling Stone)

After years and years of trying to convince the world that they were better than not only the Beatles but anyone whose ever even looked at or thought about a musical instrument, Oasis has enlisted the Hairy Fairy, aka Devendra Banhart, to remix the next single from the band’s new album Dig Out Your Soul. He chose jug band burner “Get Off Your High Horse Lady,” which you have to register at the Oasis community to actually hear. We did that and still couldn’t, so we’re going to just repost what the Oasis fans had to say about it on the message board…

bharper
Haha its quite good!

vashuclash
weird and equally piontless

snazzmaster
doesnt work for me

bergkamp2004
doesnt play

brightmeister
bad song to remix tbh, not bad tho, still as awful as the original song

dudacough
not workin for me

MasterNova
I prefer album version. Of course with it’s Indian theme, it feels very Jamaican to me. Anyone else? That strumming acoustic in the background really sets a tone different than the other ‘Techno’ bits that are usually inter-laced in remixes.

- All in all this sounds like a completely different song, which I gather it is supposed to. A little low key and monotoninous for me though. Also, I guess due to popularity of it right now, can’t access whole version and it is pretty laggy.

.Rubber.Soul.
Why remix this song?

It would be like painting a turd purple. Pointless and stinky.

shakermakerman
its crap

speller
it doesnt work

dudacough
ok it’s working now for me.

rather cool actually. Nice twist to it.
Still prefer the album version, but it’s still a good remix.

bigbri1973
it’s ok, very chilled.

fatbobslim
Not playing for me either… grrr.

soldier~on
Cool but i still like the album version better

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Words and photos by Sarahana

Vetiver, Papercuts and These United States at the Bell House last week was a pretty stellar line-up, and probably a reaffirmation that this spacious barn-like room in Gowanus, with killer late night meat pies no less, is one of the best places to see new music in New York City (Sufjan Stevens was present, and someone told me that Devendra Banhart was around, too).
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