Megafaun have always been a little unpredictable. While rooted deeply in folk, they've never shirked away from adding any number of sounds regardless of how "unnatural" they are. With their third album out in September, I actually had little idea what to expect, especially considering how very little they revealed in their teaser video for the new self-titled album (just some tuning strings and cymbal crashes). Well with the release of "These Words", there's a least some idea what to expect. Structured around Joe Westerlund's field recordings of a Balinese gamelan and some rural North Carolina sounds. It's kind of like Age of Adz Sufjan Stevens got lost in a forest with some recording equipment. And yet with their soaring vocal harmonies they remain so quintessentially Megafaun. Listen to "These Words":
Megafaun "These Words" by Hometapes
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