megafaun:

Hey everyone! We hope you get a chance to check out this next jam from our new record.  It’s called “State/Meant”, and we should probably come clean about the fact that this is the only song on the record that uses Philly’s banjo. ;)  Enjoy! 

State/Meant by Megafaun via Hometapes

hometapes:

MEGAFAUN: album cover, track list, and first single from Megafaun

The first song you reveal from an album — from a band like Megafaun, from an album like Megafaun — says something. How do you tune the world to Phil Cook, Joe Westerlund, and Brad Cook, to the vastness of their minds, to the sheer nature of time? 

MP3: Megafaun “These Words”

Process, songcraft, and toss-and-turn emotion collided when Megafaun’s Joe Westerlund looped together field recordings from his travels in Bali and rural North Carolina: a round-robin of gamelan, ambient sounds, frogs, and cicadas underpin a hauntingly indelible piano melody and a hypnotic beat. Then there are the voices.

This song stopped us dead in our tracks, encapsulating the Megafaun we know and the Megafaun we’ve yet to hear. In between? Well, that’s Megafaun, out September 20, 2011. 

The cover art was created by none other than Aaron Draplin.

Check out the premiere on Pitchfork this morning.

And talk about premieres:

We are excited to announce the first child of Megafaun’s Phil Cook and his wife Heather, born last night in Durham, NC!

Megafaun Megafaun

1. 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

View the album teaser video right here.

Megafaun will be released in Europe in September by Crammed Discs.

New Megafaun album out 9.20.11. Get excited!

(by Hometapes)

If this doesn’t give you goosebumps you’re probably dead.
ASTW Presents Justin Vernon, Megafaun and Fight the Big Bull with Sounds Of The South Live @ MusicNow (by A Story Told Well)

3rd Annual Save Our Arts Benefit for Durham’s Central Park School for Children. Performances by:
Student Bands from CPSFC, The Wigg Report, The Beast, Midtown Dickens, Sacrificial Poets, The Old Ceremony, Megafaun. Posters for sale, good times and saving the arts, what else do you need?

Brad Cook writes about songs that make him cry for Muzzle of Bees’ Sad Songs & Waltzes. This is one of them, Sharon Van Etten breaking your heart wide open with A Joke or a Lie.

I spent this weekend watching Megafaun, Fight the Big Bull, Justin Vernon (of Bon Iver) and Sharon Van Etten performing their rendition of Alan Lomax’s Sounds of the South. It was one of the most moving musical experience I have seen in a long, long time and spending the last few days with all of them was so good for the soul I’m at loss for words to sum it all up. I made a lot of new friends and got to know some old ones even better, it was like the best week of summer camp ever and as Sharon said last night “Summer Camp lives forever in your heart.” …Amen, sister. (via pitchfork)

Pitchfork announces new Megafaun mini-LP info today. Hang on to your hats kids.

Volunteers. Yay for Monday!

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