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DEVENDRA BANHART "Cripple Crow" Reviews
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Release: 13 Sep 2005
Label: XL
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| StylusMagazine |
Rating: 9.1 |
Cripple Crow is about bringing different peoples and different times together through music, finally an homage to community itself.
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| Popmatters |
Rating: 9.0 |
The most immediately striking change is how much more confidence Banhart exudes all over Cripple Crow.
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| PitchFork |
Rating: 8.4 |
Still, Cripple Crow is undoubtedly impressive, vastly singular but entirely accessible, and an inspired listening experience where Banhart again proves himself one of the more talented and charismatic forces in modern music.
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| DustedMagazine |
Rating: 8.0 |
Despite being more polished and disciplined than his past albums, Cripple Crow is Devendra Banhart at his most relaxed and peaceful.
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| MusicOMH.com |
Rating: 8.0 |
Cripple Crow, astonishingly, is 23-year-old Banhart's fourth album as a solo artist, but suddenly it seems people are listening to this minute minstrel's music and musings.
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| Splendidezine |
Rating: 8.0 |
Now, with Cripple Crow, he has entered a wildly creative, completely undisciplined period, piling style on style and sound on sound.
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| NME |
Rating: 8.0 |
Certainly this album works best when approached as a buffet rather than a single sitting.
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| The Independent |
Rating: 8.0 |
Cripple Crow is steeped in the values and attitudes of that brief, Edenic moment when hippiedom's interest in Oriental mysticism fused with folk's earthy traditionalism to produce a sort of neo-medievalist folk-pop revolution.
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| ShakingThrough |
Rating: 7.2 |
Devendra Banhart's 22-song fourth album, Cripple Crow, delivers so many styles and moods that it's impossible to label.
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| TinyMixTapes |
Rating: 7.0 |
Banhart's got a nice progression going, and Cripple Crow falls right in line.
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| Playlouder |
Rating: 7.0 |
The album's focal point and title track, for instance, is perhaps the strongest moment, a reverential and hymnal, yet senstively done, treatment of these troubled times.
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| RollingStone |
Rating: 6.0 |
But when Banhart sputters joyful melodies on charming, fully realized tunes such as "I Feel Just Like a Child," it's the sound of a talented space cadet finding his bearings.
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| Dotmusic |
Rating: 6.0 |
"Cripple Crow" - Banhart's fourth album in two years, and the first to be almost entirely with a full band - while lasting no longer than the average album (74 minutes to be precise), feels longer than a cricket test.
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| SoundsXP |
Rating: 6.0 |
This album is too long. It is too sprawling and unfocussed to be recognised as a classic work in the folk music canon.
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