Rejoicing In The Hands
- Devendra Banhart
- Band Name: Devendra Banhart
- Record Label: Young God
- Release Date: May 4, 2004
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100Banhart is a complete antidote to all the consumer focus groups or hit-writers, too scared to tamper with the formula. He has stumbled upon a personal Eureka that says there're no laws governing what can be written about in song except self-imposed ones and he's taken that to his heart, and in Technicolor.
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100Anyone who can sit down in such a short period of time and write this many unique songs has to have something abnormally genius working inside.
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90A nearly flawless set of left-field folk. [Jun 2004, p.106]
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90It’s as simple as songwriting can get; as striking as songwriting can get.
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90The combination of timeless songs, superb production and Banhart's often mesmerizing performance make for a very strong album.
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90The 16 songs that appear on Rejoicing in the Hands, are so striking in their sound and so original, that no producer could've have imagined them. If anything, they affirm Devendra Banhart as one of the most unique musical talents to emerge in quite some time.
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Granted, there will be some that cling to the lo-fi eccentricities of that debut, but while Oh Me Oh My... may have won him heaps of critical praise, Rejoicing in the Hands is the album that backs it all up.
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90The music is just as pure and personal and unintermediated as before, but it sounds better in every conceivable way.
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Banhart ceaselessly entrances with his brilliant combination of John Fahey-esque pickings, absurd and sometimes profoundly resonating lyrics and the craft to convey both kinds with equal candor.
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Rejoicing in the Hands is a remarkable album, and Banhart displays a range and gift for melody that belies his twenty-three years.
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84Rejoicing in the Hands establishes Banhart as a major voice in new folk music. Not only does it improve on the promise of his earlier releases; it effortlessly removes the listener from the context of the recording.
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80A work of art, slightly rough around the edges and a little makeshift, but tremendously beautiful all the same.
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If Oh Me Oh My was Devendra’s stunning introduction to the wide musical landscape, then Rejoicing in the Hands further marks his emergence as the most unique and important new voice in the music today.
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80Banhart's free-flowing oddness makes most musical eccentrics seem self-conscious and predictable. [Jun 2004, p.90]
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80Rejoicing in the Hands finds Banhart developing past his early lo-fi recordings in favor of a crisper, more succinct sound that highlights his intricate guitar picking.
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Banhart's music is utterly unselfconscious and poetic.
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80Even more mesmeric and deep into Nick Drake territory: intense and slightly damaged. [Jun 2004, p.94]
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80Banhart mixes a relaxed bearing and a tense vocal delivery in a fascinating manner. [#245, p.51]
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Though his second CD has a charming Ambrose Bierce quality to it, a little goes a long way.
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70Lost in an eerie, graceful torpor, he opens his mouth and lets words seep out and linger, like so much intoxicating smoke.
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70It sounds both brand new and old as the hills.
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