Freak folk
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Freak folk is a subgenre of psychedelic folk associated with the 2000s New Weird America movement and used to describe the work of artists such as Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart, Animal Collective, a
Devendra Banhart compiled The Golden Apples of the Sun, a various artists album which inadvertently helped freak folk solidify into a genre
Newsom at the Sasquatch! Music Festival, Washington, May 2005
Vashti Bunyan was a touchstone for the 2000s freak folk scene
The Holy Modal Rounders have been noted as precursors to freak folk. Pictured in 1968; Sam Shepard (left) and Steve Weber
Devendra Banhart
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Devendra Obi Banhart is an American singer-songwriter and visual artist. He was born in Texas and grew up in Venezuela and California. In 2000, he dropped out of the San Francisco Art Institute in San
Banhart in performance at the Granada Theater in Dallas, February 2017
Banhart performs at the 2009 Coachella Festival