Megafaun - Megafaun
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  • Summary: This is the fourth album for the North Carolina rock trio who at one time were in a band with Justin Vernon named DeYarmond Edison.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 16
  3. Negative: 0 out of 16
  1. Sep 20, 2011
    83
    Megafaun is as distinctive as its predecessors, showing a prettier, more approachable side to a band that appears to be constantly evolving.
  2. Sep 30, 2011
    80
    For their third studio album...Megafaun dial back the more progressive elements of their sound in favor of a languid, Laurel Canyon-inspired foundation that treads the middle ground between Blitzen Trapper's experimental, neo-Southern rock romancing, and Will Oldham's post-Palace Music infatuation with American Beauty-era Grateful Dead.
  3. Nov 3, 2011
    80
    Seek out this album if you enjoy good-natured and progressive roots music. [Oct 2011, p.105]
  4. Oct 5, 2011
    80
    Yet aside from that one cut, Megafaun's self-titled album seamlessly integrates an easy-going tuneful-ness with a nearly mystical devotion to tone and texture.

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