Well Some People Try And Treat Me Like A Man

I read an article about Devendra Banhart's 2005 single I Feel Just Like A Child a few days ago, a song and artist that hadn't crossed my path for at least a decade. I always liked I Feel Just Like A Child, the acoustic T- Rex rhythm guitar and percussion and Devendra's dippy lyrics...

I don't have much of Devendra Banhart's back catalogue but my curiosity was piqued and I went back to what I do have. In 2013 he released his eighth album Mala, fourteen songs, pretty focused and well executed, some sung in his mother's native Venezuelan Spanish, loose and laid back but not all over the place, the freak folk dialed down a little. Mi Negrita was one of the Venezuelan ones, one of my favourites and came with a very nicely done edit from Daniele Di Martino which kept all the South American feel and added some early 2010s deep house sounds...

Mi Negrita (Daniele Di Martino Edit)

Before that in 2009 Devendra contributed a cover to a Kath Bloom tribute album...

Forget About Him

Since Mala Devendra has released another three albums, most recently one in 2023 with Cate Le Bon. 

Hippy Shake

Devendra Banhart, nu-hippy supremo, cropped up at Acid Ted on Friday- a most unexpected Acid Ted artist. I'm not a huge fan of Mr Banhart but I like these two songs. Forget About Him has an ace shuffly rhythm and is a cover of a Kath Bloom song.

Forget About Him

I borrowed a Banhart album from a friend several years ago- I don't seem to have made a copy of it, not a digital one anyway. There may be a cassette somewhere (which would date it to pre-2007 for me). This song was the best one on it. I Feel Just Like A Child stays just the right side of cloying, grooving along like an acoustic T Rex....