
Flying Wig - Opaque Blue Vinyl
Devendra Banhart
- LP
- Label
- Mexican Summer

Flying Wig is an album of recurrent dualities; a can of paradoxes, a box of worms. The redwood and pine-surrounded cabin studio where Banhart was ?constantly listening to The Grateful Dead? somehow birthed something slick, modernist, city pop-adjacent and Eno-esque.
Banhart's eleventh record, it's the actualisation of a ?precious friendship? with the acclaimed solo artist, multi-instrumentalist, producer and Mexican Summer stable-mate Cate Le Bon ? a coming together prophesied by the mirror-image titles of their early solo albums (Banhart?s 2002 Oh Me Oh My to Le Bon?s 2009 Me Oh My) and a tenderness built on crude haircuts (?we finally met, soon after she was cutting my hair with a fork and that was that?) and home-made tattoos ? but never previously translated into the recording studio.
?It?s about transmuting despair into gratitude, wounds into forgiveness, and grief into praise,? - the product of a ritualistic creative practice that melts down and re-casts as it mulls, the stuff of sadness beautified as it changes shape ? culminating in a record that ?sounds like getting a very melancholic massage, or weeping, but in a really nice outfit? if I?m going to cry, I wanna do it in my best dress.?












