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Gather, Form & Fly

Megafaun

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Megafaun cross dusty Americana with clever sonic experiments to create something sublimely odd and wondrous on their second album, Gather, Form & Fly. The trio will place an ancient-sounding fiddle beside an electronic squeal or vocal harmonies next to atonal strangeness and make it all work brilliantly. (Califone fans in particular will probably love the approach on this recording.) A wide range of styles are employed, including well-orchestrated and sweetly melodic tunes (“The Fade,” “The Longest Day”), country blues (“Solid Ground”), delicate acoustic ballads (“Worried Mind”), and wildly improvisational ramblings — and sometimes all within the same song. “Darkest Hour” begins as a sound collage featuring running water and thunderclaps and ends in a woozy sing-along; “Columns” begins a cappella and morphs into looped weirdness and gently hissing feedback; and the exhilarating “Impressions of the Past” takes so many twists and turns that it’s really several songs artfully stitched together. The many surprises and unexpected delights make Gather, Form & Fly an exciting and fully absorbing listen.

Customer Reviews

Terrible

Terribly awesome. It is like listening to an album after you got on a time machine and transported to another location. Oh, and there's a giant field of oversized sunflowers. Magical. Have you seen the show Freaks and Geeks? It's that good. Two corn-cob pipes way up. Kaufman is the special treat.

Great!

I have no idea why it says slightly disappointed, because I am certainly not. I love the stuff! One of the most remarkable things to me about this music is the rhythmic intelligence of the group. As a percussionist, it is intensely obvious when a drummer or an entire band has no idea what they are doing with rhythm. This is not such a group. The rain drop sequence that begins "Darkest Hour," for example, is nothing short of masterful. Awesome music!

Plant that flag on solid ground.

This album is fantastic. Megafaun are incredible musicians and beautiful songwriters. They can groove hard on a blues, tear your heart out with a ballad, and construct a sound collage that transports you to another realm. All the while they maintain the characteristics that make them Megafaun. Their unique core instrumentation of guitar, banjo, and drums creates a fragility that is at once intimate and powerful. The addition of bass, horns and strings fills out the timbral spectrum. This album gets better after each listen. Buy the record and then go see them live!

Biography

Formed: Raleigh, NC

Genre: Alternative

Years Active: '00s, '10s

When Justin Vernon left Raleigh, North Carolina by way of Eau Claire, Wisconsin indie folkers DeYarmond Edison to go on to late-2000s indie wunderkind status as Bon Iver, the remaining members of DE — Phil Cook, Brad Cook, and Joe Westerlund — carried on in North Carolina as Megafaun. With an impossible to pinpoint, laid-back lo-fi sound incorporating Byrds-esque harmonies, elegiac folk picking, and off-kilter instrumentation (think a rougher around the edges Fleet Foxes), Megafaun earned...
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