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===Critical reception=== Banhart's music is often referred to as [[psychedelic folk]],<ref>{{cite news|last=Hall|first=Nicholas|date=April 7, 2009|title=Devendra Banhart's footloose folk|newspaper=SF Weekly|url=http://www.sfweekly.com/2009-04-08/music/footloose-folk/|access-date=May 2, 2009|archive-date=June 10, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610122604/http://www.sfweekly.com/2009-04-08/music/footloose-folk/|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Freak-folk|freak folk]]<ref name="NYT041212" /> and [[New Weird America]]; it is associated with acts such as singer-songwriter [[Joanna Newsom]], musical group [[CocoRosie]], and [[Contemporary history|contemporary]] [[Folk music|folk]] [[Band (rock and pop)|band]] [[Vetiver (band)|Vetiver]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Rutledge|first=James|date=November 5, 2004|title=Joanna Newsom and the New Weird America|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A3212740|access-date=May 2, 2009|publisher=BBC}}</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]'' has called his work "free associative work"<ref name="NYT041212" /> and ''[[SPIN Magazine|SPIN]]'' magazine has described it as "[[ashram]]-appropriate guitar strums" and "[[Hippie|trippy-hippie]] tone poetry."<ref name="Devendra Banhart on SPIN.com">{{cite web|date=October 27, 2009|title=Devendra Banhart on SPIN.com|url=http://www.spin.com/reviews/devendra-banhart-what-will-we-be-reprise|publisher=SPIN.com}}</ref> Critics have compared Banhart's style to that of [[1970s in music|1970s]] band Tyrannosaurus Rex, an early version of [[British rock]] musician [[Marc Bolan]]'s [[T. Rex (band)|T. Rex]],<ref name="allmusic">[[AllMusic]] page: "[https://www.allmusic.com/artist/devendra-banhart-p534323/biography Devendra Banhart biography]."</ref><ref name="times">''[[The Times]]'' article: "[http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article6864474.ece Devendra Banhart: What Will We Be]{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}."</ref><ref name="splend">''Splendid'' article: "[http://www.splendidezine.com/features/devendra/ Features: Devendra Banhart] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081217113200/http://www.splendidezine.com/features/devendra/|date=December 17, 2008}}."</ref><ref name="mojo4music1">{{cite web|title=Devendra Banhart|url=http://www.mojo4music.com/blog/2008/05/devendra_banhart.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522110450/http://www.mojo4music.com/blog/2008/05/devendra_banhart.html|archive-date=May 22, 2011|access-date=May 17, 2011|publisher=Mojo.com}}</ref><ref name="stylus">''[[Stylus Magazine]]'' article: "[http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/devendra-banhart/cripple-crow.htm Cripple Crow review] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111027235550/http://stylusmagazine.com/reviews/devendra-banhart/cripple-crow.htm|date=October 27, 2011}}."</ref> though in a 2004 interview Banhart stated that he was unaware of Tyrannosaurus Rex until after he began writing and recording music.<ref name="arthur">''[[Arthur Magazine]]'' article: "[http://www.arthurmag.com/2011/02/18/so-righteous-to-love-devendra-banhart-interviewed-by-trinie-dalton-arthur-no-10may-2004/ "So Righteous to Love": Devendra Banhart, interviewed by Trinie Dalton (Arthur No. 10/May 2004)]."</ref>
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