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.

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  1. The A.V. Club
    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. All Music Guide
    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. Under The Radar
    Nov 3, 2011
    80
    Seek out this album if you enjoy good-natured and progressive roots music. [Oct 2011, p.105]
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  4. Blurt Magazine
    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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