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- Record Label: Beggars XL
- Release Date: Sep 25, 2007
- Summary: The latest album from the Texas-based artist includes guest appearances by Gael Garc?a Bernal, Nick Valensi of The Strokes, and Rodrigo Amarante of Los Hermanos.
- Record Label: Beggars XL
- Genre(s): Rock, Folk
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 20 out of 34
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Mixed: 12 out of 34
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Negative: 2 out of 34
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it's great to hear Banhart playing outside of type, and the swagger and muscle occasionally at work suit him surprisingly well.
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Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon is another very fine achievement in the still young, but immensely satisfying and always intriguing, career of Devendra Banhart.
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Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon is many things--perhaps too many things, but its successes outnumber its failures, and it essentially solves the problems inherent in confining a freeform singer to time signatures and arrangements and rhythms imposed by outsiders.
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There's nothing minimal about the music, which is cleanly produced, smartly textured hippie shamble.
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The main problem with '...Thunder Canyon' though is it's long - 72 minutes long - which suggests when Banhart let his muse fly free, he forgot to keep a check on his ego, too. At its best, this is subtle, touching, beautiful. At its worst, it's meandering and smug. You're entertained, but unsettled.
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Q MagazineIntriguing though Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon is, it remains unclear how he and his peculiar talent will thrive out there. [Oct 2007, p.104]
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Rather than the thoughtful songcraft and inspired peformances of Banhart's pre-Roberts Young God recordings, what you hear now is the zoned-out noodling of someone who foolishly believes his own genius hype.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 10 out of 16
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Mixed: 3 out of 16
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Negative: 3 out of 16
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LoucasP.Oct 13, 2007Definitely one of the best albums of the year, "I remember"...
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Georgeb.Sep 29, 2007it's an fantastic album...devendra is amazing, all of his albums are masterpieces.
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GusDec 12, 2007Amazing.
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KennethC.Oct 14, 2007
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Apr 2, 2011
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SweetL.Sep 28, 2007Hmmm, what happened with this album?
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SpiderWebbOct 2, 2007More hippy-dippy verbiage from this stinky Marc Bolan plagiarist.
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