Such is his influence on psych and freak-folk in the last decade, Devendra Banhart no longer sounds particularly freaky – it's perfectly normal to record on vintage hip-hop equipment, combine flamenco guitar with frowsy 80s synths or write odes to the medieval mystic Hildegard von Bingen nowadays, as he does here (Damon Albarn is also a fan of the saint). Swapping in and out of various tongues is his party trick, as on Your Fine Petting Duck where he and Serbian fiancee Ana Kraš duet in English and German, as deadpan as shop mannequins and as flat as Nico. His taste for bathos and anachronism ensures that even the tiniest songs have their character: the jazz waltz Golden Girls recalls queuing to see Suede; Won't You Come Over is a string of increasingly clunky lyrics crammed into that tune that goes "Mama's gonna buy you a mockingbird". If he opted to waft round the world for the next three years only to return with another quiet little triumph like this, it would be perfectly acceptable.