Devendra Banhart has announced a new album, Flying Wig, which will be out in September. It's his follow-up to 2019's Ma. He worked on it with the incredible Cate Le Bon, recording it in a cabin studio in Topanga.
"She’s the only person I wanted to make this record with," Banhardt said in a press release. "We set out to make a record sonically unlike anything I have made before – with a new creative partner at the helm. We definitely wanted a new sound, electronic yet organic and warm…we wanted to draw out and emphasize the emotional aspect of a synthesizer."
Today, Banhart is offering up the album's lead single, "Twin," which comes with a music video directed by Matt Muir. Check it out below.
Here's more of what Banhart had to say about the album:
This entire record was inspired by Kobayashi Issa’s poem
This dewdrop world-
Is a dewdrop world,
And yet,
And yet…
I’ve never read a more concise and clear illustration of hope… it just sweeps me away by the breadth of its scope…. as lonely as we might feel at our saddest, angriest, most desperate, most frustrated, most hopeless, most heartbroken moments, we have all felt that, everyone on earth, our ancestors before us, and those that will come after, have or will feel that…. The “and yet , and yet” is our ability to face despair with hope, to keep on failing and loving
TRACKLIST:
01 "Feeling"
02 "Fireflies"
03 "Nun"
04 "Sight Seer"
05 "Sirens"
06 "Charger"
07 "Flying Wig"
08 "Twin"
09 "May"
10 "The Party"
TOUR DATES:
10/03 Iowa City, IAThe Englert Theatre
10/04 Chicago, ILThalia Hall
10/06 Toronto, ONThe Phoenix Concert Theatre
10/07 Montreal, QCCorona Theatre
10/08 Burlington, VTHigher Ground
10/09 Boston, MAThe Sinclair
10/11 New York, NYWebster Hall
10/12 Philadelphia, PAUnion Transfer
10/13 Asbury Park, NJAsbury Lanes
10/14 Washington, DCThe Howard Theatre
11/07 Lisbon, PTColiseu
11/08 Braga, PTTheatro Circo
11/10 Madrid, ESPalacio Municipal
11/11 Valencia, ESLa Rambleta
11/12 Barcelona, ESParal.lel 62
11/14 Paris, FRLe Grand Rex
11/15 London, UKTroxy
11/18 Lyon, FRLe Transbordeur
11/19 Lausanne, CHTheatre de l'Octogone
11/21 Milan, ITAuditorium Fondazione Cariplo
11/22 Trieste, ITTeatro Politeama Rossetti
11/23 Vienna, ATGlobe
11/25 Berlin, DEPassionskirche
11/26 Hamburg, DEKampnagel
11/28 Amsterdam, NLParadiso
11/29 Brussels, BEAncienne Belgique
12/06 San Diego, CAObservatory North Park
12/07 Los Angeles, CAThe Belasco
12/09 San Francisco, CAThe Fillmore
12/11 Portland, ORRevolution Hall
12/12 Seattle, WaNeptune Theatre
12/13 Vancouver, BCCommodore Ballroom
Flying Wig is out 9/22 via Mexican Summer.
