Well Some People Try And Treat Me Like A Man

I read an article about Devendra Banhart's 2005 single I Feel Just Like A Child a few days ago, a song and artist that hadn't crossed my path for at least a decade. I always liked I Feel Just Like A Child, the acoustic T- Rex rhythm guitar and percussion and Devendra's dippy lyrics...

I don't have much of Devendra Banhart's back catalogue but my curiosity was piqued and I went back to what I do have. In 2013 he released his eighth album Mala, fourteen songs, pretty focused and well executed, some sung in his mother's native Venezuelan Spanish, loose and laid back but not all over the place, the freak folk dialed down a little. Mi Negrita was one of the Venezuelan ones, one of my favourites and came with a very nicely done edit from Daniele Di Martino which kept all the South American feel and added some early 2010s deep house sounds...

Mi Negrita (Daniele Di Martino Edit)

Before that in 2009 Devendra contributed a cover to a Kath Bloom tribute album...

Forget About Him

Since Mala Devendra has released another three albums, most recently one in 2023 with Cate Le Bon.