How Much Devendra Is Too Much Devendra?

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I got a copy of his newest album Nino Rojo a few weeks ago and it's really very good. So good in fact that it makes me wonder if he should have spaced the records apart more to give people a break. I've already got mad love for 'Rejoicing' - now I've got to throw another Devendra record on my top 10 list?

― jon pruett (jon pruett), Friday, 30 July 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I got a copy of his newest album Nino Rojo a few weeks ago and it's really very good

A new *new* album? Is Young God releasing this too?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 30 July 2004 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

The two Devendra songs on the Vetiver album is too much Devendra.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Friday, 30 July 2004 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.luger.se/uploads/imgArchive/devandra_band_bild.gif

I think this answers the question.

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 30 July 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Are any of you Adult Swim fans? A few times they've played short clips of Devendra and Vetiver playing at their studios. Weird.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Friday, 30 July 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Indeed a new album. On Young God. to then be released alongside "rejoicing" as a double album.

― jon pruett (jon pruett), Friday, 30 July 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

#$!$#!@#$ -- I would prefer an individual release of that for those who already have Rejoicing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 30 July 2004 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

That said, I just checked the Young God page and all -- weird, I must have read that update a couple of months back and forgotten all about it!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 30 July 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Devendra doesn't do it for me at all ... tho, I gotta admit his show in Phoenix last year was fascinating to watch.

― Chris O'Connor (Chris O'Connor), Friday, 30 July 2004 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

pretty sure it's getting an individual release. the album is pretty top notch. I don't have a tracklisting for it, but I know one song is an Ella Jenkins song and another one he's played live several times (it's about all the animals: the psycedelic squid, the dancing crab, the sexy pig..etc). Hot damn, it's good.

― jon pruett (jon pruett), Friday, 30 July 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

fuck - he keeps stealing my cover songs. First Liz Cotton and now Ella Jenkins?? It better not be "Racing with the Sun"

anyway, i'm psyched to hear this new one, the last one ruled

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 30 July 2004 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm stil not sure. I think he is brilliant on the one hand, but i can't listen to the (new) album all the way through without getting annoyed.

A talent though? Def. yep.

― piers (piers), Saturday, 31 July 2004 04:57 (twenty-one years ago)

fifteen years pass...

i'm at a devendra barhart show right now... this is awful awful music

― lumen (esby), Thursday, 31 October 2019 04:41 (six years ago)

this condescending manoc depressive sadboi shit is really working on these boulder college gals tho, i will say

― lumen (esby), Thursday, 31 October 2019 04:45 (six years ago)

opening band 'black belt eagle scout' blew these ppl off the stage

― lumen (esby), Thursday, 31 October 2019 04:47 (six years ago)

dude's stage presence 'auditioning for host of polylingual 2019 remake of TV show blue's clues, exclusively for youtube'

― lumen (esby), Thursday, 31 October 2019 04:52 (six years ago)

every genre attempted, no matter how rhythmic or flavorful, turns into limp dick indie in his handa

― lumen (esby), Thursday, 31 October 2019 04:54 (six years ago)

I’m kind of surprised any college students are at a Devendra show.

― afriendlypioneer, Thursday, 31 October 2019 12:31 (six years ago)

two friends of mine saw him a week or two back and were horrified at how bad it was, they had not been keeping up

― Book Doula (sleeve), Thursday, 31 October 2019 13:52 (six years ago)

That's really weird, since I think his new record is actually the best thing he's done in years. Felt like it actually shifted away from that whole sad-sack thing in a way he hasn't since, I don't know, Cripple Crow. Guess he prefers that mode live these days.

― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 31 October 2019 14:06 (six years ago)

he is mostly terrible but he is so beautiful

― marcos, Thursday, 31 October 2019 14:55 (six years ago)

three years pass...

I've only checked in on him intermittently since the mid 00s, and I'm always surprised by whatever he's doing at that point, but this new one is quite nice. Apparently the new album is a collaboration with Cate Le Bon, so I'm already sold.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynRbKEA2ai8

― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 9 July 2023 18:52 (two years ago)

This has sent me back to Rejoicing On The Hands for the first time since the CD era. I wasn't expecting to enjoy it as much as I am.

But man, I miss this era of music, kind of ruined by an increasingly dull parade of successors: Bon Iver, Grizzly Bear, Fleet Foxes, and I guess logically ending with stuff like Mumford & Sons. It's easy to forget how interesting and creative a lot of the earlier 2000s freak-folk stuff could be

― Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Monday, 10 July 2023 15:54 (two years ago)

an increasingly dull parade of successors: Bon Iver, Grizzly Bear, Fleet Foxes, and I guess logically ending with stuff like Mumford & Sons

You're probably right, though I guess I've always blamed that stuff more on the Death Cab/Rilo Kiley end of the scene. But tbh I blame every last thing I don't like on that end of the scene.

― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Monday, 10 July 2023 18:50 (two years ago)

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