Review: Devendra Banhart - Lover
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Stone the (cripple) crows, what on earth has Devendra done? Now, on his last full length he did a pretty good job of creating a dusty, smokey love letter to 1970s folk, but he seems to have taken his 70s obsession a bit too far and created this stodgy mush of a funk ditty. Appearing to have taken Dylan at his worst as a starting point, this plods along in almost comical style what with it being overproduced to the hilt. Gone is the rustic sweetness of his previous recordings, gone is the lovely sense of melody, but in is...
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