Niño rojo by Devendra Banhart

Niño Rojo, released on September 13, 2004, was Devendra Banhart's fourth release and his third for Young God Records, with Michael Gira producing. Banhart, Texas-born and raised in Venezuela and California, was working the freak-folk seam, and this is that sound at its most intimate: small, odd, homespun songs that seem to have wandered in from somewhere else.

"Little Yellow Spider" is the track that crept onto the countdowns, and advertisers came knocking too: it turned up in an Orange mobile phone commercial in 2007, while "At the Hop" sold Cathedral City cheese and Fat Tire beer. By 2006 the album had moved more than 30,000 copies in Europe, enough for a silver certification from the Independent Music Companies Association. Cripple Crow came next.

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