Megafaun
Gather, Form & Fly

Right, let’s get one thing straight before we begin. Lazy, derivative music is a Bad Thing. You already knew that. Exhibit A: the existence of Jet. Re...

There is something vaguely unsettling about 3 folky weird-beards on horseback dabbling with electronic skronk, field recordings and musique concrete; ...

This shaggy freak-folk trio’s second album boasts more than coolness by association (Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon is a former bandmate). <i>Gather, ...

even if the market for neo-folkies with scraggly beards is reaching full saturation, Megafaun's sophomore album, Gather, Form & Fly, brings renewed en...

Megafaun’s debut, Bury the Square, was a bracing mix of tradition and experimentation. Within the album’s expansive, droning tracks, there...

Understand this about what you will read here: I am going to be mostly complaining about a record I actually like. This is because Megafaun’s failures...

Americana has always been a troublesome genre tag, both too broad in the wide range of roots music it covers, and too narrow when it comes to all-Amer...

Over the past few years, the climate has become such that hippies can safely come out of the closet and walk among the indie-types. With the rising p...

...

Justin Vernon may be the member of DeYarmond Edison to have garnered the most attention since the relatively unknown North Carolina band split, having...