Rejoicing In The Hands

This is #day187 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and... how on earth did this end up here? I could only make it through about 3.5 songs from the tracklist. The delivery didn’t sit right with me, especially since I can’t stand this kind of vocals. And then there was the music. Or was it? I was shocked to learn Michael Gira of Swans produced it, but that’s no saving grace. Hilariously, there are no Swans on this list. Is this an album I must hear before I die? Absolutely fucking not. This is a 1 out of 5. Looking forward to #day188.

Hänen kulmansa folkiin on modernius sekä makeileva lauluääni. En kykene kulutukseen.

I can't review this noodly bullshit because I died of boredom listening to it.

Kind of like that dude you know from Freshman Week who’s always out on the lawn with no shoes and his guitar and you’re desperate not to catch his eye because if he sees you he’s gonna be like hey dude I learned another Leonard Cohen song for you and you’re gonna be obliged to go over and listen or come up with something lik3 wow amazing but I’m late to meet my friend for coffee and then he’ll be like I don’t know why we don’t hang out anymore dude and you’re gonna have to be like I know I know man we’ll come up with sometime soon…

Trying to look like Frank Zappa. Trying to sound like Nick Drake. Failing at both. This was dreadful. A painful listen that only gave me joy when it ended. Never again.

Used to hate this guy. Can't really remember what he sounds like. Not keen to be reminded. That 'new weird america' scene or whatever was disgustingly pretentious and lame (Joanna Newsom gets a pass even though I don't particularly rate her). The top review guy for this has potentially the worst music takes I've ever seen, just as an aside. Still not listening. Listen to Angels of Light instead.

No

If you want falsetto proto-metal

meh

1- Stars (1/15)

Wrong mushrooms.

This is an album made by the worst human being at a party who decides everyone needs to hear his insipid fake spiritual songs about “his journey”. What a terrible pile of wank

What an unpleasant vocal performance.

Vreselijk

I didn't like the last album I heard, but this one is even worse

Didn’t love him then. Don’t love him now.

Hipster shite.. pass

The music on this album is perfectly pleasant, but Devendra's voice is bordering on annoying. The whole thing has a twee smugness which winds me up. It feels like coffee shop music, if the coffee shop was run by wankers.

Hate this. Hate this. Hate this. I had a little dig on YouTube to watch a few interviews or music videos to really get my hate boner throbbing, but disappointing nothing else seems as upset as this. He’s just a bit of an arty California wanker. But the tone he affects on this album goes right through me, and that’s what I’m marking today. Easy 1 star.

Bestimmt toll wenn man an einem warmen Sommerabend am Strand in beschwingter Runde sitzt, jemand hat eine abgerockte Klampfe mit und sorgt damit für andächtiges Lauschen in den Gesprächspausen. Aber nur dann.

This album reminds me of the time I accidentally gave a Miles Davis album 2 stars on here. It was a mistake, I did not mean to give Miles Daves 2 stars. Please forgive me. This is far too reminiscent of early T-Rex. Not in a good way. Yep 16 tracks in he's still doing the wobbly voice thing. I mostly don't like it. I sort of like track 6. If you are going to put a Devendra Banhart album on this list surely it should be Illinoise. Sorry mate this is pants.

01) This Is the Way - 6,5 02) A Sight to Behold - 6,5 03) The Body Breaks - 6,0 04) Poughkeepsie 5,0 05) Dogs They Make Up the Dark - 4,0 06) Will Is My Friend - 4,0 07) This Beard Is for Siobhán - 5,5 08) See Saw - 4,5 09) Tit Smoking in the Temple of Artesan Mimicry - 4,0 10) Rejoicing in the Hands - 4,0 11) Fall - 4 0 12) Todos los Dolores - 5,5 13) When the Sun Shone on Vetiver - 5,5 14) There Was Sun - 5,0 15) Insect Eyes - 5,0 16) Autumn's Child - 4,5 TOTAL: 4,97 (50/100) Current ranking: 227/243 This is so utterly boring. I slept through the songs marked with a rating of 4.0 and I don't feel bad about it at all. On the other hand, I do feel sorry that I stayed awake for the others.

Aimless folksy? I didn't enjoy it.

🤢🤮

rym 3.40 ma cristo dio che senso ha dire a un sito: "non voglio merda folk/cantautorato" se poi lui te la propone lo stesso 1/5 lo odio

Pretty but idk why it belongs on this list

I wanted this to be over quickly.

und wer macht morgen das „album of the day“? handgestricktes irgendwas, sorry.

A bunch of songs that would be forgettable but fine interludes on an album where the artist had done something worth listening to otherwise. If you got Michael Gira to sing on these they could be throwaways on an Angels of Light record. the vocals are awful and give the impression that Devendra Banhart is an unpleasant person to be around. the emotionally manipulative creep vibes are so strong that I am giving this the rating that this whole archetype of guy deserves. music: hated. (⌐■_■)

This is definitely one of the most interesting albums I have listened to so far, and it's a really hard one to make an opinion on. Like, I feel like I should like this, but there's something so unsettling about it. It's really hard to describe, so maybe it's pointless to try and review it with a reason for why I don't like it. There's just something so off putting about this that I have no idea how to describe. His voice is almost creepy, and the lone acoustic guitar gives this album such an isolating sound. The further I went through this album, the less I liked it. By the time I got to the last few songs, I just couldn't wait for it to be over.

Some nice guitar playing but also thought it was incredibly boring and didn't really care for any of the songs

I'm torn between the phrases "annoyingly twee," and "annoyingly fey." I've actually seen Devendra Banhart live, I've just remembered. A friend from work got me to go - probably around the time this album came out! I wasn't really into it. I get a Russel-Brand-vibe off of him. I wouldn't be surprised if he released an album called "My album-y walbum". So I'm a bit prejudiced against this album from the get go. Listening to it... Oh yeah, he's got a voice like Marc Bolan. And the songs sort of noodle along... This is a bit like "Passenger" or those chart-topping singer songwriters. All husky voices and meaningful-sounding but meaningless. Suitable for an indie film where a young man with a beard stands on a beach looking wistful. Okay. I'm five songs in and I get it. It's possible I'm just not in the mood for this. But I'm going to have to take a break from it at least.

Too much whimsical acoustic guitar. Dullton FC

For what it is its OK. There are far better exponents of this genre, can't see why this is considered anything more than a passable one. I mean why no Yuseph Islam (Cat Stephens) or Donovan Leach. Sorry but there have been albums here that I really didn't like, but I could understand their inclusion because they may be shit but in their genre they were special. Can't see why this would have that quality. A solid 1.

If only this was an instrumental! Loved the guitar work and mood but ruined by a maniac trying to sing

Escuché unos segundos, una hippeada espantosa

Folk/acoustic. It's aight. Some boring crooning. Kinda sounds like the guy from alt-j. It mostly sucks.

Mindless and boring.

totalnie nie moj styl, jeden nieprzeszkadzacz, reszta troche dla wiedzm typu olka posadzy

All sounded the same

no thanks!

Self-indulgent folk nonsense. Bailed after three songs.

This is some of the dullest music I’ve ever heard. Good god man.

Could t get into it.

Not my cup of tea at all.

Plagsomt

Just meh. This didn’t do it for me at all. I didn’t feel any connection whatsoever. Didn’t feel any emotion listening to this.

Word er zenuwachtig van

Blind album and artist. Not impressed by this personally and not my kind of music. N. O.

Well I listened to it and can move on.

Awful

Amazing! What an unbelievable crap!

Wow, what the fuck is this? I could’ve died happy not hearing this one. If I could give this album a 0 I would.

Nothing special

Some of the guitar was nice but the vocals and lyrics were rough for me

Kill me now…what a pile of shite.

This is really the kind of self-absorbed garbage that makes me question the validity of 1001.

Not to take anything away from anyone else but...Not my thing, not our thing. I've always been shocked to see these albums in the Young God catalog.....

Didn’t care for this one. The music, lyrics didn’t resonate with me

Almost as bad as ZZ Top

vuoden 2004 käsitys taiteesta

So boring

Not gonna lie and not gonna apologize: I couldn't make it through this. Songs about beards are one thing, but that shit where he's basically naming Elvis songs in the lyrics and adding twenty extra V's to the word "viva"? I'm out. Not saying he doesn't follow in a long line of folk singer songwriters whose voices are an acquired taste, but I have no desire to acquire this particular one and I'm just gonna chalk that up to taste.

Yuck. 1.0.

It’s like we got a week of good albums and now I’m being punished for something. I don’t even know what to say about this album except that it was awful. Poughkeepsie especially. Just nothing good about this album except that it was relatively short so I didn’t have to suffer THAT long.

Scene: ...I find myself going out to dinner in summertime in the city and there ends up being a ~45 minute wait for a table and we decide to just sit outside on a bench and pass the time listening to a nice mellow busker across the cobblestone... this sounds quite nice.... I mean, sure, it's the setting - we're all feeling non-committal just sitting here absorbing, he's over there with his acoustic guitar, got some interesting chordal structures, a very unusual voice, hmm not sure where some of the songs are going so I drift a little ..."...man, is our table ready yet?... yeah he's pretty decent although maybe this would sound a little better with a band or some production backing him up I'm getting a little sleepy and maybe grouchy but no no it's fine I have a Snickers bar in my pocket, should be only a few more minutes this is sort of dragging no? is his voice getting worse? ah let's stay here they're probably calling us any second... yeah i heard those lyrics too, the ones that went 'i could take my teeth out and show them a real good time' yeahyeah what...ok you're right let's go wait inside instead good call..." Then after my unexpectedly not great and still unsettling meal I go home to find that my "album of the day" just happens to be this same music which has been placed on an album that sounds like it may have been recorded in an empty refrigerator box in the corner of his tiny kitchen in his grimy 3rd story apartment and consisting of exactly the same set and not only does it just not ring true I really can just reach for a snack in my fridge or better yet the Tums in the medicine cabinet and call it a night and be done already. 2/10 1 star.

This was like someone recording in their bedroom for their Mum’s pleasure. I hope she enjoyed it because I definitely didn’t ! 1*

Possibly because we had two awfully warbly singer-songwriters albums in a row this got short shrift.

Odd. Anyone know why this is in the list?!

This is just shite

Also: ich muss das nicht gehört haben. [gähn]

Not for me. Only made it to track 2

Boring and slow. His voice was also weird...

lovely

Wow, suuuper plate

Weird shit. Not a fan. WIll never willingly listen to that again.

Found it really hard to enjoy this considering half the time all I could think about was how his voice reminded me of Adam Sandler’s while performing the Hanukkah Song. In general, I just found this really boring, and not for me.

This simply bored the ever loving shit out of me in the most annoying way possible. And that's just not something I can admire.

One of the most annoying albums I have ever listened to. The voice of Marc Bolan's irritating brother coupled with twee as hell acoustic guitar. I rejoiced in the end of the album.

AJ: LOUD FART NOISE

Didn't really do anything for me

Not available in Mexico

meh

Some ass

aivan hirveätä indie paskaa. tänään en jaksa,, tänän ei jaksa tällästä ei mitään hyvää löydy tästä kasasta 1-3 minuuttisia vinguntahetkiä. harmi että ei animals päässyt nyt listalle, ei nyt aivan ei IHAN siis niin lähellä mutta ei nyt ehkä 2002 albums listalla mutta nyt ei tähän päässyt....haista vittu the beard is for siobhan

A folk singer that can’t write lyrics or melodies. It’s a novel singer and guitar approach… Christ I’m only on the first song. The only positive is that each dreadful, insight free, song is mercifully short before the next tuneless banality begins. Only 25,000 copies sold and I'll take a punt as to how many ended up in charity shops.

Folky with lots of guitar snd vocals. Meh.

This simply doesn’t belong on this list Cover art: 1/5

Boring, pretentious crap. Was there actually an intentional "outtake" left on Todo Los Dolores???? Perfectly sums up music like this--trying entirely too hard to be artsy and against the grain

Did not like this at all. Like a shitty version of a Damien Rice album. I think the shittiness was further intensified by the fact that there was a whole movement of this sound maybe 5 years later. Nothing exceptional about this sound at all. Also, there's no reason for this album to have 16 tracks. It's a mess.

My god its tedious

I don’t really like his concert. Nice guitar licks and really poignant lyrics. To clarify, some of the lyrics are poignant he said buhbuhbuh maybe 20 times.

I don't like their voice. I really don't like this. Yep, still don't like it even with it being in spanish and 4 and a half songs to go. This folk singer songwriter sound has never appealed to me and its sort of nice to know that it still very much does not.

Fuuuuck hvað þetta er leiðinlegt. Hreimur og fraseringar drepa mig

Loada wank.

Annoying, repetitive riffs and vocals. His voice is not fun to listen to. Bleh.

Don't think I would listen to this again.

No.

Pretty bad. Not musical. Not interesting.

Non mi piace la voce che vuole spiegarmi come vivere la mia vita, almeno non in un album. Oddio, peggiora anche, in 'Poughkeepsie' comincia ad avere qualche problema strano. Ma dai, ma cosa sta dicendo, ma che schifo. Pessimo

Pretentious, hipster, an obvious rich kid slumming it.

Saved Prior: None Off Rip: Will Is My Friend (I too have a friend named Will!) Cutting Edge: None Overall Notes: Seen someone with a four star review whose only complaint was "I only wish it was longer". We gon kill you dog we gon get you gone

Couldn't finish this album

Sounds like the same song over and over

This album was a rough listen. It has the dubious honour of being the first one I haven't remotely enjoyed.

Weird modern folk. Was not a fan

No idea what this might be. Some kind of indie/folk/religious thing? The cover has me stumped. Oh god it's folk rock, and it's someone in 2004 trying to sound retro and 60s. Dude's voice started out annoying and only got worse. Songs were just nothing - same thing repeated over and over. Another fine addition to the list lol. 1/5.

Nope. After 3.5 songs... Just nope.

Wikipedia describes this as "psychedelic folk", which - I guess? A few interesting progressions among the dissonance, like the glimmer of light in a Bartók piece.

Not a good album. I wanted to skip most of the songs.

plain bland mild boring samey. not one redeeming quality. especially dislike his voice and the weird inflections. 44 albums in, this is the one ive disliked the most so far.

no please, folk == not it chief

Sounds like a rough demo rather than a fully realised album. Quite poor.

Some cool guitar lines, but I can't stand the voice, seemingly a large part due to the vibrating style. Some songs want me to give this 2 stars, but I feel this was worse than Murmur.

Awful - managed 3 tracks.