Flying Wig - 2023 US Mexican Summer Label Opaque Blue Vinyl 10-track LP

Flying Wig is an album of recurrent dualities; a can of paradoxes, a box of worms. The redwood and pine-surrounded cabin
studio where Banhart was “constantly listening to The Grateful Dead” somehow birthed something slick, modernist, city
pop-adjacent and enoesque.

Banhart’s 11th record, it’s the actualisation of a “precious friendship” with the acclaimed solo artist, multi-instrumentalist,
producer and Mexican Summer stable-mate Cate Le Bon — a coming together prophesied by the mirror-image titles of
their early solo albums (Banhart’s 2002 Oh Me Oh My to Le Bon’s 2009 Me Oh My) and a tenderness built on crude haircuts
(“we finally met, soon after she was cutting my hair with a fork and that was that”) and homemade tattoos — but never
previously translated into the recording studio.
“It’s about transmuting despair into gratitude, wounds into forgiveness, and grief into praise,” - the product of a ritualistic
creative practice that melts down and re-casts as it mulls, the stuff of sadness beautified as it changes shape — culminating
in a record that “sounds like getting a very melancholic massage, or weeping, but in a really nice outfit… if I’m going to cry,
I wanna do it in my best dress.”

Tracklisting.

1. Feeling
2. Fireflies
3. Nun
4. Sight Seer
5. Sirens
6. Charger
7. Flying Wig
8. Twin
9. May
10. The Party

Release date: September 23 - 2023