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Megafaun

http://www.megafaun.com

http://www.myspace.com/megafaun

When Justin Vernon left Raleigh-by-way-of-Eau-Claire-WI indie folkers DeYarmond Edison to go on to late-'00s 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 accolades beyond their feted former bandmate. The trio gained solid enough reviews for the sparse debut disc Bury the Square in 2008; however, their sophomore release the next year, Gather, Form & Fly, on the Home Tapes label, drew raves, with high marks from the ~Onion AV Club and ~Pitchfork. The mini-LP Heretofore arrived the following year.

"Both sides of Megafaunthe experimental and the cosmic American popcontinue to act as equal forces. Ultimately, Heretofore doesn't satisfy either of those urges in full. Then again, given the scope of those points, it seems unlikely that anything possibly could. That doesn't mean Megafaun can't have a long, rich career trying". - Jesse Jarnow - Independent

"The rattling, rambling album makes no distinctions between song and sound, between old and new, rural and urban, or heart and head". -Stephen M. Deusner - Pitchfork "Honorable Mentions"

"Megafaun's roots are familiar; the bloom is uniquely theirs" - Rolling Stone

"Megafaun fits squarely in the bearded Caucasian folkie camp, but the ethereal Gather, Form & Fly is far too extraterrestrial-sounding to be bound to this planet, much less this country. Evoking a warmly inviting yet mysteriously alien countryside terrain reminiscent of those gorgeously golden wheat fields from Terrence Malicks Days Of Heaven, Gather, Form & Fly has a psychedelic mind & a Pentecostal heart, applying raggedly strummed banjos and woozy acoustic guitars to harmonies that swell heavenward like ghostly dust clouds." - The Onion

"Averse to predictability and sentimentality, the band is restless with established forms, yet instead of subverting blues and folk traditions, they upend them. Their ends are deconstructive, not destructive." - Pitchfork Media

"This North Carolina trio writes loping, harmony-laden folk-rock, with just the right level of weirdo mysticism." - Rolling Stone

Saturday 3rd September 2011

Price: £6.50 Advance

Doors: 19:30



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