Life after 30 finds the original freak folker putting away hippy-dippy things. Meet Devendra Banhart Version 2.0: shorn, showered, shaved, engaged, focused and wearing a shirt. He’s also making the finest music of his career. New album Mala (Nonesuch) is the best thing he’s done since his debut. Guest appearances are few and far between, so what comes through is the thing that’s always been Banhart’s greatest asset: himself. He will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our recent print cover story on him.
Banhart: This video is a pre-Swans Michael Gira! Do you see how cool he has always been? Indeed, frightfully uncouth, refined with an air of devil-may-care intensity, delightfully androgynous in a precise and deliberate yet in harem-scarem slap-happy sorta way! I Love ya, MG!
One reply on “From The Desk Of Devendra Banhart: Michael Gira”
He is channeling Ian Curtis with this look.
I like Swans cover of “Love Will Tear Us Apart”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiQsv3Q5P8Y