Ashley Shadow announces new album Only The End, it contains a song featuring Bonnie Prince Billy on vocals: Don't Slow Me Down (thanks ray)(25/07/21) From a 6 song EP called Have Fun Idiot!, coming out August 6 on sonaBLAST! (thanks ray)(31/07/21) 'Donal and Colter' is the most up-tempo song, but even then it's still mid-tempo at best. Bonnie Prince Bill y and Andrew Rinehart cover Friend Of The Devil by the Grateful Dead, listen here. Each track rings true and can't be deemed contrived. Throughout the record, Banhart is never guilty of being artistic just for the sake of being artistic.

'Legless Love' has a handclap tempo to it that resembles a flamenco style as Banhart describes burying songs in snails. When tracks like 'Pumpkin Seeds' are entirely flushed out, it's pure magic as the acoustic folk angle is played out to near perfection. A lot of the songs appear to be not fully realized, but perhaps that's the beauty of them. An almost ethereal and angelic performance compensates for its shortcomings, though. 'Soon Is Good' is the most promising track, but the sound levels tend to fluctuate from verse to verse. The standout track would have to be 'Miss Cain,' which has a pretty harmony vocal to it as Banhart picks his guitar in a rather intricate fashion. 'Lend Me Your Teeth' is the most mainstream-structured arrangement, with Banhart showing a bit more intensity. Perhaps comparisons could be drawn to Hawksley Workman and Hayden to a lesser extent, but Banhart makes both artists sound bland in comparison.

The fragility heard in 'Nice People' resembles Victoria Williams but evolves into a Syd Barrett song structure, speaking of 'wide ass suits and lion tattoos.' Barrett can be discerned throughout the record, especially during 'Gentle Soul.' 'Cosmos and Demos' lends itself more toward Pink Floyd performing something from Echoes, perhaps the acoustic-oriented 'Fearless.' Lyrically the songs are quite odd and occasionally nonsensical, particularly 'Michigan State.' Here Banhart speaks of a friend who has his favorite teeth and ears. A number of the tracks are less than or just over one minute in length, often stream-of-conscious poetry put to music. Leary,' but that performance is only one of the many highlights here.

Cars can be heard driving past in 'The Charles C. Originally recorded on shoddy and broken four-track recorders, the songs have a definitive roughness and audible hiss on nearly all of them, giving them a certain authenticity rarely found. 'Roots (If the Sky Were a Stone)' is a perfect example of this, as Banhart uses his vocals and an acoustic guitar to get his brief yet often memorable points across. The first thing that strikes you about Devendra Banhart is his utterly unique and soft voice, which seems a mix of Nick Drake and Marc Bolan.

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