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| | What Will We Be (Limited Edition) | | | Music Artist : | | Devendra Banhart | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Warner Bros. | | Release Date : | | 2009-10-27 | | Store Price : | | $18.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $15.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Can't Help But Smiling
2. Angelika
3. Baby
4. Goin' Back
5. First Song For B
6. Last Song For B
7. Chin Chin & Muck Muck
8. 16th & Valencia Roxy Music
9. Rats
10. Maria Lionza
11. Brindo
12. Meet Me At Lookout Point
13. Walilamdzi
14. Foolin'
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 His best yet?
Submitted on: 2009-11-14 |
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Unlike many of Banhart's longtime fans, I quite like the more polished feel of this record. His friends and band mates have improved their playing over time and the clean production on What Will Be let's that shine through. This record, especially the vinyl pressing, sounds fantastic and when played at higher volumes really impresses. The songs are well written, well arranged, well produced and most importantly great fun. It would seem much of the leap forward can be credited to Paul Butler's production. I've recently discovered The Bees, Butler's band. Their recordings, especially Octopus, also exhibit much of what I admire in What Will be.
In short, What Will Be has impressed me more with every listen and to my ears it may very well be Devendra Banhart's best record yet. If you own a decent turntable, do yourself a favor and by the Vinyl issue. It sounds incredible and has two extra tracks. |
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 one day at a time...
Submitted on: 2009-11-08 |
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This album was recorded in Mexico, and maybe that's why it has a subtle layer of mexican sounds in some of the songs. I think of Angelika and Can't help but smiling. But, really, this album is an example of anachronism. It has no space (it's from nowhere) and no time (it's the 70's (Rats), the '50s (Chin chin and muck muck), and the 60's ("Maria Lionza" could have been written by Simon & Garfunkel and we haven't noticed))
Another thing is you can't really place this album in any genre. Be it freak-folk, brasilian tropicalia revival, jazz or reggae. It is a collage of all of them.
4 stars, specially "Last song for B", "Foolin", "Walilamdzi" and "Brindo". |
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Holy Moly! He cracks me up...he cracks me up!
Submitted on: 2009-11-04 |
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Well, I thought the review titled "Dude...why?" was a little harsh. This album is fun and makes me want to dance and smile. I don't think it's as "polished" as others have claimed. I mean, for crying out loud, he coughs at the end of "Rats." I love the lyrics and all the crazy stuff he mixes the songs up with-much fun.
Although I loved Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon, this album is really growing on me. This one makes me want to dance more. He sounds so much like Jim Morrison in parts of "Rats." "Rats" has a psychedelic, trippy kind of feel and sounds great if you blast it and it's a nice contrast to some of the other songs. What I love about Banhart is how he mixes things up so well. There really is a subtle balance between reflective songs, upbeat makes you want to get up and dance songs, and some actual brilliant psychedelic-sounding rock in this album. On my lunch break, I just went out to my truck in the parking lot and drank some coffee and listened to it. I wanted to bring the sound back into work with me and hated turning it off (although one of the tunes "Baby" is still in my head). This album keeps getting better and better the more I listen to it- all kinds of interesting goodies packed in there. Great album. I was not disappointed. roll tide. |
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Beardless Boy Does Good
Submitted on: 2009-11-03 |
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I first saw Devendra Live in Brooklyn, just before his album came out on young God. Michael Gira was raving about him, and I had to hear him.... I deeply regret not seeing him many more times back in those early days...
I have really been a fan ever since that first time in Brooklyn, he sat there, bare footed on a table, on the stage...and just blew me away. I don't think I have ever enjoyed a Michael Gira support "group" ever so much as this one, although I do like Melissa Nadler.
So the album itself. I understand how Devendra has essentially evolved and grown. Devendra is one of those artists that does his own thing. Although I tend to think this is perhaps how Devendra always wanted to sound, or was building up and evolving to this point, consciously. One can only wonder what strange things David Tibet has exposed our Devendra too, I note Dev's Wiccan Tatoo.... and the thelemic imagery on the last album. Although Dev's music sounded too positive for anythign negative to have crept in.
The Album is then a logical conclusion. The first album "Oh me..." was afterall a demo tape he never thought would be released. So really his first album proper were the subsequent Nino Rojo and Rejoicing in the hands on Young God records.
So as noted the sound has been cleaned up, but this was hinted at on smokey rolls (Dev's previous album)but Smokey's major failure was that it was too long and there were far too many voices all chiming in at once...it was fun, but a mess, the sound of someone allowed to finally work in a group and explode onto plastic.
What will be conversly explores this more refined sound of Devendra without the clattering of too many voices. Indeed as Smokey was too long, this one leaves you wanting more...and more. But then that is a good thing, always leave them wanting more....leave us wantign more, so we play it again, and/or wait for the next album...or tour (Dev is far bettter live than on any compact disc!).
What will be then sounds like a solo record again, which allows the songs to breathe and Devendra to do his thangggg....
You may not like the cleaned up sound, and personally I was skeptical, and even more afreaid when I initially played it. But, it grew on me... the Chorus of Baby hit me "Travelling in my Choo Choo train....wooo hooo"
I was hooked, and I knew, this was another Devendra classic that I would come back to repeatedly for years.
Other Highlights include:
First song for B, a sombre gentile song that almost makes you want to cry, in a similar vein to Devendra's "Autmn's child, or I remeber" from his earlier works.
16th & Valencia Roxy music...just grabs you and draws you in... you'll be bopping and singing to it...Yes it does have TRex and /or Roxy music undertones...
The Limited Edition comes with a nice booklet of lyrics, similar to the one that came with Smokey (last album)...full of Dev's art...
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 dude.....why??
Submitted on: 2009-11-01 |
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| for a guy so promising in the nascent stages of his career, he fell off big time. this is drivel....so disappointing. homeboy needs to grow his beard back and pick up an acoustic guitar. sorry to be so harsh, but just calling it like i see it. |
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