Devendra Banhart Flying Wig Vinyl LP 2023

Tracklist:

1. Feeling
2. Fireflies
3. Nun
4. Sight Seer
5. Sirens
6. Charger
7. Flying Wig
8. Twin
9. May
10. The Party

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 Enoesque.

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 (Banharts 2002 Oh Me Oh My to Le Bons 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 s