Devendra Banhart Working on New Album

Devendra Banhart Working on New Album Devendra Banhart, freak-folk's resident male pin-up, is back in the studio recording his fifth full-length, the follow-up to 2005's Cripple Crow.

Banhart is producing the album along with friend and touring bandmate Noah Georgeson. Other contributors to the record include Vetiver's Andy Cabic, Espers' Otto Hauser, Joanna Newsom's brother Pete, Los Hermanos' Rodrigo Amarante, Luckey Remington, Greg Rogove, former Metallic Falcon Matteah Baim, and Banhart's touring band.

The album does not yet have a title or release date, but it will come out on XL Recordings.

Banhart has only one gig scheduled at the moment, at Bumbershoot in Seattle in September.
Posted by Dave Maher on Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 10:30am