devendra banhart - rejoicing in the hands torrent

192kbs / 2004



"Rolling Stone (4/15/04, p.151) - 3 stars out of 5 - "Sounding like the work of a high-pitched Tom Waits, Banhart's second album is full of alternately fragile and quirky folk songs..." Q (p.94) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[E]ven more mesmeric and deep into Nick Drake territory: intense and slightly damaged, especially on the stark love songs..." Mojo (p.106) - 4 stars out of 5 - "Banhart wraps his songs in a gorgeously quavering warble that seems lifted right off some blues mama's dusty 78. A nearly flawless left-field folk." Uncut (p.90) - 4 stars out of 5 - "REJOICING...feels like the work of a man in the midst of a prodigious creative spurt." Uncut (p.74) - Ranked #26 in Uncut's "Best New Albums of 2004" - "[A] mystical trip into an eerie neverland of joyful bohemian blues." Magnet (p.87) - "With his trembling tenor, Banhart continues to traverse the surreal, telling the tales of laughing lemon trees, milky suns and dancing teeth....It's a mesmerizing journey through the dark heart of Brooklyn's lost boy."



tracklist:



1. this is the way

2. a sight to behold

3. the body breaks

4. poughkeepsie

5. dogs they make up the dark

6. will is my friend

7. the beard is for siobhan

8. see saw

9. tit smoking in the temple of artisan mimicry

10. rejoicing in the hands

11. fall

12. todo los dolores

13. when the sun shone on vetiver

14. there was sun

15. insect eyes

16. autumn's child