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8.0
5318
8.0 |
The Sunday Times
No more goofing around: Banhart has knuckled down and made the transition from show pony to songwriter.
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8.0
5320
8.0 |
Q
Print edition only
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7.0
5319
7.0 |
Spin
A big improvement over 2007's ho-hum Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon, it's also the most consistently satisfying full-length he's made.
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7.0
5323
7.0 |
NME
But to claim that the album marks the man pandering to an audience who’ll be picking it up in Sainsbury’s isn’t entirely fair. Unlike, say, Joanna Newsom, Banhart’s already as close as his ilk can be to becoming a household name
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7.0
5912
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
There is a three-track run late in this album that promises a lot for the next one — a suite of gently magnetic love songs that feels like one fine trance
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7.0
6489
7.0 |
Blurt
The acoustic riffs are still reliably warm as Cat Stevens or Mark Mothersbaugh in music director mode
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6.0
6218
6.0 |
The List
...a sun flecked collection of woozy acoustica
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6.0
6612
6.0 |
Rave Magazine
...it’s all rather more polite than one would hope from this genuine modern eccentric
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6.0
7099
6.0 |
FasterLouder
Banhart has shown he can stay rooted in the folk world but also draw South American, Mexican and Cuban influences into his trippy sound
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6.0
5623
6.0 |
The Irish Times
For every peach, however, there’s a song that meanders aimlessly before eventually petering out. And what’s with the misplaced reggae pomp of the closer, Foolin’?
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6.0
5697
6.0 |
PopMatters
The languor and the accompanying muddy, slightly fuller orchestrations don’t help lighten an oppressive mood
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6.0
5321
6.0 |
Mojo
Print edition only
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6.0
5322
6.0 |
Uncut
Whether you hail What Will We Be as a reassuring manifestation of Banhart’s newfound artistic discipline or an uneasy compromise in the general direction of conventionality will depend on your predisposition
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5.0
6010
5.0 |
musicOMH
One can't escape the feeling that, for a writer and performer of Banhart's undoubted talents, this album sees him rather treading water
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4.0
6332
4.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Devendra Banhart’s latest is anything but groundbreaking. There’s some interest to be found but for the most part he displays a real lack of daring. It seems that without the urge to be a bit weird, gone too is the urge to challenge or confron
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4.0
6500
4.0 |
Eye Weekly
shows him still struggling to channel his prolific output and experimental whims into a cohesive, purposeful work
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4.0
5940
4.0 |
Evening Standard
Slightly barking mad hippy folk mysticism is not everyone's hand-fired bowl of exceptionally flatulent health food
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4.0
5942
4.0 |
Pitchfork
A mess of scrambled styles that ostracizes more often than it charms, at least one-third of this record plays like a batch of covers cribbed from one of those Putamayo world-music collections at Whole Foods
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