It's amazing that it's taken this long for Devendra to make his "log cabin in the woods" album, and equally amazing it's taken this long for him to make an album in collaboration with fellow wondrous oddball Cate Le Bon! Flying Wig is pure loveliness, with Banhart saying of the record... "[it] 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.” - Flying Out
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.
Tracklist
- Feeling
- Fireflies
- Nun
- Sight Seer
- Sirens
- Charger
- Flying Wig
- Twin
- May
- The Party
