Devendra Banhart

With an effortless and magical songwriting style and a quivering croon, Devendra Banhart was a key player in the freak folk movement of the early 2000s. Cross-referencing the woodland mystique of T. Rex-era Marc Bolan with emotionally rich and often surprisingly vulnerable lyricism, Banhart's poetic, acoustic songs grew from the intimate lo-fi of early critically acclaimed albums like 2004's Rejoicing in the Hands to the more polished recordings and experiments with styles, arrangements, and instrumentation on genre-hopping albums like 2007's Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon ...