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Mala
Folk · 2013 · 14 tracks · 40m

Mala

Devendra Banhart

Intimate, home-recorded vignettes where gentle acoustic fingerpicking meets vintage drum machines and whispered bilingual surrealism. A quiet, late-night masterpiece.

March 8, 2013 · Nonesuch

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A gentle, eccentric intimacy that feels both deeply personal and playfully surreal.

Tracklist · 14 Tracks · 40m
01
Golden Girls
1:36
02
Daniel
3:06
03
Für Hildegard von Bingen
2:36
04
Never Seen Such Good Things
3:14
05
Mi Negrita
3:25
06
Your Fine Petting Duck
5:46
07
The Ballad of Keenan Milton
2:17
08
A Gain
1:35
09
Won’t You Come Over
3:37
10
Cristobal Risquez
2:28
11
Hatchet Wound
3:10
12
Mala
1:08
13
Won’t You Come Home
3:32
14
Taurobolium
3:17
Moments Worth Waiting For
The unexpected shift into a German-language synth-pop duet halfway through Your Fine Petting Duck.
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Where This Album DepartsEach spoke is a trait. The orange shape shows where this album pulls away from — or holds to — the rest of the artist’s catalogue. Tap for more.

How does Mala sound next to the rest of Devendra Banhart's catalogue?

Late Night+3.5σ

Late Night saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

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