Calling Devendra Banhart’s music freak folk is both lazy and condescending. But damn if that dude’s not freaky and folky. On his eighth album, and first since 2009’s What Will We Be, the ...

I've warmed up to Devendra Banhart's new album, Mala. The folkie freak, who hates when he's referred to as anything resembling a hippie, cruises lazy Tiki bar rhythms and tequila sunrise musings on ...

Sorry, Devendra, we can hardly hear you beneath those scarves. On Mala, his eighth album (Nonesuch Records, $16), L.A.’s prince of freak folk—who, incidentally ...

Last month folk artist Devendra Banhart announced the release of his new album, Mala, his first since 2009’s What Will We Be. Today Banhart revealed a bit more about the impending studio effort, ...

Devendra Banhart will return with his eighth studio album, Mala, on March 12 (out through Nonesuch), and in anticipation of the folk-gypsy’s follow-up to 2009’s What Will We Be, the NME has shared ...

Folk vagabond Devendra Banhart has shared more details about his new album, Mala, his first studio album since 2009's What Will We Be. The record will be out on March 12 through his new home label ...

Devendra Banhart gave us a brief sample of his upcoming record, Mala, through “Für Hildegard von Bingen” earlier in the month, and now here’s our second serving. “Never Seen Such Good Things” pairs ...

Nonesuch Records released “Mala,” Devendra Banhart’s latest full-length album, Tuesday after a three-year hiatus. The artist paused his musical career in favor of pursuing his interest as a visual ...

It’s been about four years since the once-prolific Muppet-voiced neo-hippie wanderer Devendra Banhart released his last album, and Mala, his long-awaited new one, arrives next week. Banhart has ...

For a guy who gets tagged with a lot of limiting descriptors — "freak folk," "hippie" and so forth — Devendra Banhart doesn't like to let his music sit in any spot for long. His catalog, which now ...

It’s why “Golden Girls” - the dense, brief opener to the Venezuelan-American songwriter’s Nonesuch Records debut and first album in four years - is so surprising, with its repetitive “get on the ...

The more Devendra Banhart makes music, the more he loosens his grip on it. That’s a good thing. When he emerged a decade ago as a leader of the freak-folk movement, he seemed destined to be a casualty ...