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Devendra Banhart • Ma
Sire • released 2019-09-13
Orchestral and very intelligent singer-songwriter music that yields some very intricate arrangements without being overwhelming and overwrought.
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Johnny Marr, who provided his distinctive liquid guitar sound to the Smiths and many others, returns with a solo album that shows not much has changed.
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On Halloween I fell asleep to this horror-punk platter playing, and dreamt of whirling in a mosh pit in a toxic swamp, catching elbows and knees from zombie alligators and bouncing off leaking radioactive waste barrels. I woke up covered in bruises.
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