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Flying Wig
Artist
Devendra Banhart
Label
Mexican Summer
Catalogue Number
MEX351
Release Date
September 22, 2023
  • Vinyl

    Pre-order $25.99

    Standard Black Vinyl + 24” x 24” poster

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    Estimated release date: September 22, 2023

  • Vinyl

    Pre-order $26.99

    Opaque Blue Vinyl + 24” x 24” poster

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    Estimated release date: September 22, 2023

  • CD

    Pre-order $15.99

    4 panel wallet with 8 panel poster folder

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    Estimated release date: September 22, 2023

  • Download

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    320 kbps, LAME-encoded

    Available: September 22, 2023

300 unique Adventures of The Flying Wig polaroids, photographed and signed by Devendra Banhart will fly into 300 lucky customers' orders at random. Let your wig fly.

Product Details:

Opaque Blue Vinyl
  • 24” x 24” poster
  • Printed inner sleeve
  • “Fabulous!” download card

Standard black vinyl
  • 24” x 24” poster
  • Printed inner sleeve
  • “Fabulous!” download card

CD
  • 4 panel CD
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    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.”

Digital Tracklist

  1. 1 Feeling 6:19
  2. 2 Fireflies 4:51 Buy

    Fireflies

  3. 3 Nun 3:28 Buy

    Nun

  4. 4 Sight Seer 5:03
  5. 5 Sirens 4:28 Buy

    Sirens

  6. 6 Charger 4:18
  7. 7 Flying Wig 5:32
  8. 8 Twin 6:00 Buy

    Twin

  9. 9 May 4:39
  10. 10 The Party 3:21
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