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Rejoicing in the Hands

by Devendra Banhart

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Overall Rating: 3.3344 Rejoicing in the Hands is ranked overall as 3.3344 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 3.3879 Rejoicing in the Hands has an avg. critic score of 3.3879 out of 4 stars

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Stylus Magazine

Press ReleaseYoung God RecordsDevendra Banhart,Rejoicing in the HandsYG24Devandra Banhartâs hiss-saturated, home-recorded debut for the label,Oh Me Oh My, was a transcendental trip to his twisted and gloriously idiosyncratic world. ...more

PopMatters

The 16 songs that appear on Rejoicing in the Hands, are so striking in their sound and so original, that no producer could've have imagined them. If anything, they affirm Devendra Banhart as one of the most unique musical talents to emerge in quite some time. ...more

Stylus Magazine

If Oh Me Oh My was Devendra’s stunning introduction to the wide musical landscape, then Rejoicing in the Hands further marks his emergence as the most unique and important new voice in the music today. ...more

All Music Guide

Banhart's music is utterly unselfconscious and poetic. ...more

Entertainment Weekly

Though his second CD has a charming Ambrose Bierce quality to it, a little goes a long way. ...more

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Drowned In Sound

Banhart is a complete antidote to all the consumer focus groups or hit-writers, too scared to tamper with the formula. He has stumbled upon a personal Eureka that says there're no laws governing what can be written about in song except self-imposed ones...read the complete review at Drowned In Sound

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ShakingThrough.net

Rejoicing in the Hands is a remarkable album, and Banhart displays a range and gift for melody that belies his twenty-three years....read the complete review at ShakingThrough.net

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musicOMH.com

It says much for the enduring ubiquity of the guitar in Western music that the outré folk of the last ten years sounds more obtusely contemporary in 2004 than it has done since its protest-era heyday, and its Smithsonian-curated history.Modern...read the complete review at musicOMH.com

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