Raleigh-via-Eau Clair BTW Megafaun debuted impressively earlier this year with Bury The Square . The trio nip-and-tuck experimental tendencies (tape splicing, white noise colliding with banjo, junkyard-laced spring reverb, screeching feedback at the tail end of a quiet back porch lament) and spacey explorations (see the second half of "Find Your Mark") into epic barber-shop Americana. It makes ...
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Megafaun was one of my favorites from SXSW, a banjo-plucking, harmony singing trio who used to play in a band with Justin Vernon of Bon Iver. So now we’ve got two bands. Cool. Here’s a bit of my Dusted review which ran on Friday. Bury the Square, Megafaun's first album, neatly balances the old-time rigors of country and gospel with the free-floating experimentation of rock, jazz and improv
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By shifting focus on this new record, fitting the experiments into more traditional structures instead of the other way around, Megafaun has produced one of the best records of 2009.
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The right song on a pair of good headphones can be a transcendental experience. Seriously. Music, of course, is meant to be shared and heard amongst friends in large auditoriums and sun-drenched fields, but sometimes it's also solely an individual experience. Reflecting, daydreaming, or drowning out unwanted chatter, a pair of headphones is many ways a lens into a one-person world: one where th...
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Megafaun (MySpace) was originally birthed from the remnants of DeYarmond Edison and released Bury The Square in 2007. Gather, Form & Fly is the follow-up to that widely-hailed album, and it warrants all the hype one can give. The band consists of Joe Westerlund and brothers Phil and Brad Cook. The main Edison [...]
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North Carolina trio Megafaun won us over fairly easily when we saw them open for Bon Iver this past September at the Mesa Arts Center. The band just released a new video for their song "Impressions of the Past" which comes of the groups latest LP Gather, Form And Fly.
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Megafaun - The Longest Day I'm mega fond of Megafaun and since this bluegrassy number of theirs has been bouncing around in my head for the last... (Visit my blog for more!)
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With the recent and explosive success of Justin Vernon’s solo project, Bon Iver, it’s difficult to imagine many people asking about the fate of the other members of Vernon’s previous band, DeYarmond Edison [these people shouldn't be allowed to name bands -Ed.]. But the answer to the unasked question is one worth knowing as I learned recently. When their leader wandered off into the wood
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“Thousands of miles, thousands of images. On tour with their new album Gather, Form & Fly, Megafaun was captured, piece by piece, by the photographer Tim Lytvinenko. Part-documentary, part-sense memory, Tim’s images took on a life of their own as he traveled across the west with the band, the music, the landscape, and everything in [...]
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Photographer Tim Lytvinenko joined and documented Megafaun as they toured across the states in support of their latest release, Gather, Form & Fly, out now on Hometapes. The result is a collection of experiences from the road in what they dub “part-documentary, part-sense memory.” No surprise, Lytvinenko puts this collection of shots to the music of Megafaun’s epic almost instrumental trac
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I keed, I keed. I really can’t grow a beard, so it’s out of the question.Megafaun [MySpace], that Durham-based trio birthed from the ashes of the amazing Deyarmond Edison, extended their tour in support of the critically-acclaimed second album, Gather, Form & Fly after their recently successful six week tour with fellow North Carolina-based [...]
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I don’t know about you, but for quite some time I’ve nursed a possibly silly grudge against the music video as a popular culture artifact. Over the last couple years, I’ve found them a useful way to add images to words when writing here and on my personal blog, but still only viewed them as [...]
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Megafaun - Impressions of the Past (Video) This amazing footage was captured on Megafaun's recent tour by photographer Tim Lytvinenko. So bummed I... (Visit my blog for more!)
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Here are the tracks discussed this week on HearYa.Megafaun – Kaufman’s BalladMegafaun – The FadePort O’Brien – My Will Is GoodMagnolia Electric Co. – JosephineMagnolia Electric Co. – Little Sad EyesThe Black Crowes – I Ain’t HidingThe Roadside Graves – RubyThe Roadside Graves – Far and Wide
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