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Cripple Crow

by Devendra Banhart

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Overall Rating: 3.2992 Cripple Crow is ranked overall as 3.2992 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 3.1090 Cripple Crow has an avg. critic score of 3.1090 out of 4 stars

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Pitchfork

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 folk. ...more

Pitch Fork Media

As "freak-folk" began to hit a stride last summer, Devendra Banhart's Golden Apples of the Sun compilation suggested a cogent introduction to the genre. A year later, Cripple Crow provides, in a sense, the loose-knit scene's ...more

Almost Cool

All of the interesting parts of his music are still here, he's just written an album that plays up his strengths in more measured ways. The result is easily his best release to date. ...more

Drowned In Sound

The first and last time that I listened to Devendra Banhart was on his Oh Me Oh My... debut album. Although I liked certain songs on the release, too me it seemed like he was being willfully difficult in many places, and in addition I found it ...more

The Guardian

Despite the piano, cellos and backing singers and the number of fleshed-out band songs, this sounds like nothing but a Devendra Banhart album. ...more

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Dusted Magazine

Less folky and more eclectic than his past work, Crow offers ample evidence of growth in Banhart’s range as both a performer and a songwriter. ...more

Junkmedia

If gripes were to be made, one could argue with Crow's length, which at 74 minutes may be a little more whimsy than one can handle. ...more

Splendid

While Rejoicing and Niño Rojo were clearer, simpler and more cohesive, Cripple Crow may actually be the better record. It feels exactly like the kind of album Devendra Banhart ought to have playing in his head -- a cacophony of cool sounds, a plethora ...more

New Musical Express

'Cripple Crow' is way too much, in a way we don't get given often enough these days. Take it all in at one sitting and you'll end up bloated. But little and often? It's a cut-and-come-again treat. ...more

Neumu.net

Whether it's due to the backing band, or the better studio resources, Banhart seems more self-assured than ever as he sings his songs on Cripple Crow. ...more

PrefixMag

Cripple Crow is demanding because of its length - after twenty-two tracks on a single disc, nearly any artist would be difficult to tolerate. But the album is beautifully executed. ...more

DustedMagazine

Despite being more polished and disciplined than his past albums, Cripple Crow is Devendra Banhart at his most relaxed and peaceful. ...more

Splendidezine

Now, with Cripple Crow, he has entered a wildly creative, completely undisciplined period, piling style on style and sound on sound. ...more

The Independent

Cripple Crow is steeped in the values and attitudes of that brief, Edenic moment when hippiedoms interest in Oriental mysticism fused with folks earthy traditionalism to produce a sort of neo-medievalist folk-pop revolution. ...more

All Music Guide

Ultimately, Cripple Crow is a roughly stitched tapestry; it is rich, varied, wild, irreverent, simple, and utterly joyous to listen to. ...more

cokemachineglow

At the end of the day, this still isn’t a great album. It lacks continuity, much of a sense of rhythm, and the character that Banhart’s 2004 releases took on. ...more

ShakingThrough.net

Cripple Crow does a wonderful job expressing the range of Devendra Banhart’s musical interests, uneven though the actual payoff may be. ...more

Playlouder

A prolific fellow, Devendra Banhart seems content to record and release albums more often than he deigns to have a wash � not only does 'Cripple Crow' follow hot on the heels of 2004's 'Nino Rojo' and 'Rejoicing in the Hands', it features a ...more

Tiny Mix Tapes

Cripple Crow finds Banhart doing what many didn't want him to do or thought he couldn't do: make a pretty lackluster album. ...more

Rolling Stone

Intermittently terrific. ...more

Paste Magazine

There are no outright misfires, but some songs... remain mood pieces that never build up enough sense of occasion to find structure within Banhart’s listless wistfulness. ...more

Playlouder

More than anything else, 'Cripple Crow' is an album that it sounds like it was born amidst a fun, exuberant creative process. ...more

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