What Will We Be (Limited Edition) [Limited Edition]

Devendra Banhart | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 27, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Limited Edition
• Label: Warner Bros.
• ASIN: B002OLV3KO
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #36,284 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Can't Help But Smiling

2. Angelika

3. Baby

4. Goin' Back

5. First Song For B

6. Last Song For B

7. Chin Chin & Muck Muck

8. 16th & Valencia Roxy Music

9. Rats

10. Maria Lionza

11. Brindo

12. Meet Me At Lookout Point

13. Walilamdzi

14. Foolin'

Editorial Reviews

2 LP 180 Gram Vinyl Edition includes 2 bonus tracks: 'Welcome To The Island' and 'Pray For The Other Person's Happiness'. What Will We Be has a sunny, breezy feel with performances that evoke warm, lazy afternoons spent with good friends. The album is dominated by powerfully melodic, mid-tempo numbers played with relaxed expertise. But there's also ambitious stylistic range displayed with the inclusion of evanescent ballads like 'Meet Me At the Lookout Point,' the epic riff-rocker 'Rats' sprightly R&B flavored groovers on 'Baby,' and the sultry Latin-flavored stunner 'Brindo,' the Roxy-inspired '16th & Valencia Roxy Music' among other pleasant surprises. --This text refers to the Vinyl edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Great Album from Devendra, October 28, 2009

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A. Woodley "A Stooge" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: What Will We Be (Limited Edition) (Audio CD)

I really enjoy Devendra and his albums. His last two albums, Cripple Crow and Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon, have been more clean and radio friendly than his earlier work (his earlier work is also great though). This album fits into the more radio friendly sound of Devendra (you'll still never hear it on the radio though). In fact, this may be Devendra's most polished or produced album yet. Despite this fact, in a weird way this album is a call back to some of his earlier work. I believe it feels that way because of the double tracked vocals. Even with the double tracked vocals though, it doesn't have the same experimental feel of his first work. This is a perfectly laid back album for relaxing. There are less up tempo numbers than on Smokey but the albums fits together very nicely as a whole. The album doesn't feel as grandeous as Smokey did. It defintly has a more intamit feel to it. I am not saying Smokey was grandeous in a bad way because I really enjoyed that album as well. What Will We Be just shows a different side of Devendra. If you are a Devendra fan, than you need to but this album. Whatever you want to label it, Freak Folk or whatever else, Devendra is in the top of his field.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This LP sounds AWESOME, May 21, 2010

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Rod Redux "RR" - See all my reviews

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This review is from: What Will We Be (2 LP 180 Gram Vinyl w/2 Bonus Tracks) (Vinyl)

i WAS very impressed WITH the sound quality of THIS lp. The music on the album is a slight departure for Devendra, but that is to be expected, as one must change to grow. It's a little more rock-n-roll and a little less freaky folk. Still there's enough experimental musical inventions AND ODDNESS to satisfy your Devendracravings. ONE THING i have to say is that I WAS VERY IMPRESSED with the sound quality of this VINYL ALBUM. The sound was CLEAR, ringing in your ears, on your skin, in youR BRAIN EVEN. It sounded like they WERE RIGHT THERE IN MY DEN, playing just for me! Soothing, JarRINg, entrancingggggggg and PsYcHeDelIc... dreamy, and uNIQue... Yes, I recommend you buy it.

Of the two bonus tracks, one is a throw-away going-on-a-vacation jingo, sounds like a tv commercial... but the other... Mmmm... pfantastique! Dreamy, and psychedelic. Like having ice cream licked off your brain.

5.0 out of 5 stars another gem, March 21, 2011

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Jeffrey A. Nash - See all my reviews
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This review is from: What Will We Be (2 LP 180 Gram Vinyl w/2 Bonus Tracks) (Vinyl)

as much as i always expect a let down sooner or later from artists i love, it still hasn't happened with devendra. in fact he breaks new ground on this album while still giving us that warm sound we love. being a vinyl junkie, i recommend getting the 2 LP version for all the richness that vinyl affords and it comes with 2 bonus tracks.