Megafaun - The Longest DayAlbum: Gather, Form and Fly [2009]
when justin vernon left indie folkers deyarmond edison to go on to late-'00s indie wunderkind status as bon iver, the remaining members of deyarmond edison carried on in north carolina as megafaun. with an impossible-to-pinpoint, laid back lo-fi sound incorporating byrds-esque harmonies, elegiac folk-picking, and off-kilter instrumentation (think a rougher-around-the-edges fleet foxes), megafaun earned accolades beyond their feted former bandmate. the trio gained solid enough reviews for their sparse debut disc "bury the square" in 2008; however, their sophomore release the next year, "gather, form and fly", drew raves, with high marks from the onion AV club and pitchfork. the relentless re-embrace of acoustic campfire ponderings and singalongs may seem a bit strange in the 21st century, but as far as everything progresses, there will always be a harkening back to some form of a mythic lost paradise of the form. that said, megafaun are just as taken by quietly tortured dark-night-of-the-soul whisperings, lo-fi oddities, and shards of feedback shade as they are of banjos and summertime evenings, giving the album a bit of an unsettled edge at various points.
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