Megafaun: Megafaun
Megafaun
CD
CD (Compact Disc)
Herkömmliche CD, die mit allen CD-Playern und Computerlaufwerken, aber auch mit den meisten SACD- oder Multiplayern abspielbar ist.
- Label: Crammed, 2011
- Bestellnummer: 9731835
- Erscheinungstermin: 16.9.2011
* Digipack
Product Information
The trail discovered by 2008's "Bury The Square", blazed by 2009's "Gather, Form & Fly", and tended by 2010's "Heretofore" has run into a wide and rushing river. The band we know as Megafaun, born alongside Bon Iver in the ashes that rose from Deyarmond Edison (Brad Cook, Joe Westerlund, and Phil Cook's former band with Justin Vernon), has woven years of writing, touring, and living into a new sonic language. Critically-praised and publicly-loved for their ability to speak in the many tongues of American musical history – all while blending it with their own energetic and personal form of Rock -- Megafaun has staked a claim. But the lay of that land they call theirs -- the hills, valleys, and caves beneath – is just revealing itself in the sunrise. This is the band we know, but in a new light. This is "Megafaun". "It represents a fluidness, a trust, and serves as a gesture to a type of music that we all grew up listening to," writes Brad Cook about the new album's opening track "Real Slow". Like Megafaun walking on stage in a dark and crowded venue, igniting the crowd with a smile and a strum of the guitar, "Real Slow" opens the door and invites you in. You'll hear a lot of stories tonight – from "These Words" and_ its journey of creation from Bali to South Carolina to California, to "Hope You Know" and its roots in Megafaun's youth in Wisconsin, where they grew up together and where they returned to record "Megafaun" last November. "This is by far the most vulnerable I've ever felt about a song we've released," writes Phil Cook about "Hope You Know," hinting at the record's audible honesty. Like the greatest albums of our time, "Megafaun" is a true reflection of its creators -- but there's room in that mirror for the rest of us.
Rezensionen
,,Grundsätzlich werden die Ex-Bandmates von Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) mit jedem Album ein Stück größer, sie wachsen über ihr eigenes musikalisches Spielfeld hinaus, in allen Disziplinen der Americana haben die Amerikaner eine gewisse Meisterschaft erlangt, über die Strecke von 60 Minuten demonstrieren sie jetzt, wie man den amerikanischen Rock-Traum weiter träumen kann, wenn man ihn mit der ganzen Welt verbindet." (musikexpress, September 2011)
,,Verschlungene Folk-Songs von drei hochtalentierten Hippies." (Rolling Stone, September 2011)
,,Großartige Platte, die amerikanische Musiktugenden huldigt und Lagerfeuerstimmung verbreitet." (Stereoplay, November 2011)
,,Das Blues-intermezzo ,,Scorned" musizieren sie mit klagender Harmonika und flirrenden Gitarren als Psychedelik-Trip. Auf perfekte Vokalharmonien, die jedem nach betörendem Melos süchtigen Zuhörer entgegenkommen dürften, legt die Band bei Songs wie ,,Real Slow" und ,,Everything" größten Wert." (Stereo, November 2011)
- Tracklisting
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
- 1 Play Real Slow
- 2 These Words
- 3 Get Right
- 4 Hope You Know
- 5 Isadora
- 6 Second Friend
- 7 Resurrection
- 8 Kill The Horns
- 9 Scorned
- 10 Serene Return
- 11 You Are The Light
- 12 State/Meant
- 13 Postscript
- 14 Everything