Megafaun - Bury The Square

From the vibrant Southern quasi-capital of Durham emerge Megafaun, wearing earnestness across the chest and abstraction along the sleeves. They pour forth dulcet harmonies, as seeking vocals tug banjo lines up the Appalachian mountains; redemptive noise soaks everything, like thick air wafting from the Atlantic. Bury the Square_, Megafaun's debut, is a triumph, bearing an essential consequence: _folk_ music has been wrested from purist hands. Clawhammer banjo and strummed acoustics lock and roll with electric guitars and electronic textures. They don't add freak to folk or folk to freak; rather, they realize that folk implies deep, personal, intense expression, whether the instrument is a parlor piano with the lid thrown back or a distortion pedal with the case cracked loose. In this band, orthodoxy and unorthodoxy flow together as one. Features former members of DEYARMOND EDISON. Recent acclaim in PITCHFORK. "Instead of dressing up polished alt-country songs with veils of hum, Megafaun pickles rickety back-porch folk reconstructions in a brine of chaotic field recordings and organic, free-form atmospheres. It's an album so ingeniously balanced that it stands a chance of satisfying both folk and experimental music fans. For the former, there's the clattering bluegrass/rock of "Lazy Suicide" and twinkling weeper "Drains."  The Independent Weekly

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