ARTIST / BAND: Devendra Banhart
SONG (MP3): Seahorse
ALBUM: Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
FILE UNDER: Folk / Indie
LABEL: XL Recordings
INFO:In the age of computerized music-listening, calling an album "too long"-- a dubious complaint even two decades ago, when CDs first made track-skipping simpler-- seems absurdly outdated. After all, it's easy enough to make an iTunes playlist of a record's best songs, right? So I don't get it when people call Devendra Banhart's albums too long. Not only is that problem easy to rectify, but his rambling style needs room to breathe, and space to wander toward its inspirations. Banhart's valleys have rarely diminished his peaks, and often provided ramps to them.
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