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Flying Wig

Devendra Banhart

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Format: LP

Cat No: MEX3511

Release Date:  22 September 2023

Label:  Mexican Summer / Kemado

Packaging Type:  Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  634457141452

Genres:  Indie  

Release Date:  22 September 2023

Label:  Mexican Summer / Kemado

Packaging Type:  Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  634457141476

Genres:  Indie  

  • Description

    Flying Wig is an album of recurrent dualities; a can of paradoxes, a box of worms. The redwood and pine-surrounded cabin studio where Banhart was "constantly listening to The Grateful Dead" somehow birthed something slick, modernist, city pop-adjacent and eno-esque.

    Banhart's 11th record, it's the actualisation of a "precious friendship" with the acclaimed solo artist, multi-instrumentalist, producer and Mexican Summer stable-mate Cate Le Bon - a coming together prophesied by the mirror-image titles of their early solo albums (Banhart's 2002 Oh Me Oh My to Le Bon's 2009 Me Oh My) and a tenderness built on crude haircuts ("we finally met, soon after she was cutting my hair with a fork and that was that") and home-made tattoos - but never previously translated into the recording studio.

    "It's about transmuting despair into gratitude, wounds into forgiveness, and grief into praise," - the product of a ritualistic creative practice that melts down and re-casts as it mulls, the stuff of sadness beautified as it changes shape - culminating in a record that "sounds like getting a very melancholic massage, or weeping, but in a really nice outfit... if I'm going to cry, I wanna do it in my best dress."

    Description

    Flying Wig is an album of recurrent dualities; a can of paradoxes, a box of worms. The redwood and pine-surrounded cabin studio where Banhart was "constantly listening to The Grateful Dead" somehow birthed something slick, modernist, city pop-adjacent and eno-esque.

    Banhart's 11th record, it's the actualisation of a "precious friendship" with the acclaimed solo artist, multi-instrumentalist, producer and Mexican Summer stable-mate Cate Le Bon - a coming together prophesied by the mirror-image titles of their early solo albums (Banhart's 2002 Oh Me Oh My to Le Bon's 2009 Me Oh My) and a tenderness built on crude haircuts ("we finally met, soon after she was cutting my hair with a fork and that was that") and home-made tattoos - but never previously translated into the recording studio.

    "It's about transmuting despair into gratitude, wounds into forgiveness, and grief into praise," - the product of a ritualistic creative practice that melts down and re-casts as it mulls, the stuff of sadness beautified as it changes shape - culminating in a record that "sounds like getting a very melancholic massage, or weeping, but in a really nice outfit... if I'm going to cry, I wanna do it in my best dress."

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Feeling
      • 2. Fireflies
      • 3. Nun
      • 4. Sight Seer
      • 5. Sirens

      Side 2

      • 1. Charger
      • 2. Flying Wig
      • 3. Twin
      • 4. May
      • 5. The Party

    Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Feeling
      • 2. Fireflies
      • 3. Nun
      • 4. Sight Seer
      • 5. Sirens
      • 6. Charger
      • 7. Flying Wig
      • 8. Twin
      • 9. May
      • 10. The Party