Ma
On his most cohesive album in more than a decade, the re-energized songwriter imparts life lessons to the child he may never have.
Prolific songwriter continues to work at his own pace on latest album
When Devendra Banhart appeared in the early 2000s as a wooly, free-spirited troubadour, his weird and tender acoustic songs recorded on answering machine cassettes placed him perfectly in the wilderness of the freak folk movement emerging at that time.
"Is this nice? Do you like it?" asks Devendra Banhart in the opening line on his tenth musical offering to the universe, Ma. Perhaps it asks...
Mother Earth, mother land, and our maternal relationships—freak folkster Devendra Banhart returns with "Ma" deftly weaving through these various matrilineal permutations to reflect on current ills, with songs so effortless and pretty, they sooth and com
Devendra Banhart's latest album, Ma, is a tender, beautiful meditation on the bonds that ties us together.