Devendra Banhart – Webster Hall – October 11, 2023
Devendra Banhart’s been at the front of the freak-folk movement for a couple of decades now, but he’s not afraid to embrace new sounds. On his 11th LP, the Cate LeBon–produced Flying Wig, out three weeks ago, “LeBon has made Banhart’s spacey music more spacious by closing him in — the production cages in his vocals. There are edges and corners in the arrangements where there used to be curves,” says PopMatters. “Like the inanimate object from which the album gets its title, it’s just the context that makes it bizarre. A wig that lies there is just a wig. One that flies is strange. That’s true of this record as well.” And last night he brought the new tunes to the East Village to headline a packed Webster Hall.
(Devendra Banhart plays Union Transfer in Philly tonight.)
(Devendra Banhart plays Asbury Lanes in Asbury Park, N.J., tomorrow.)
Photos courtesy of Adela Loconte | www.adelaloconte.com
