Devendra Banhart review – slinky tomcat with hipster charisma

Hackney Empire, London
The fey Banhart gives hope to beta males everywhere, charging his soft-rock bohemian romances with magnetic, swooning beautyWere an illustrated children’s dictionary to have an H is for Hipster page, Devendra Banhart would shine out from it in coloured pencil, probably dressed in the high-waisted slacks he and his band wear tonight. But while his pedigree (bearded skateboarder, dated Natalie Portman, did an Oliver Peoples advert) might suggest aloofness, the Venezuel