New York, NY (Top40 Charts) "With its wild turns, halcyon harmonies, and roaring guitars, Welcome Home is Megafauna�s most ambitious and imaginative record to date, like
St. Vincent for people who love the Melvins."
- Consequence of Sound
"Equal parts challenging and accessible, Welcome Home rewards close attention but works effortlessly as ear candy." - Austin Chronicle
"...a slowly built Jenga tower in which one piece gets pulled and an all-out rhythmic assault ensues."
- Stereogum
"Intriguingly trippy..." - Austin American-Statesman
Today, the Austin-based three-piece Megafauna release Welcome Home, their fourth studio album and follow up to 2014's critically acclaimed Maximalist. In celebration of the new release, Dani Neff spoke with BUST Magazine who are streaming the album in its entirety.
Formed in 2008, the Austin-based band led by guitarist and singer Dani Neff dives deep into the sounds of soul exploration leveraged on the powerful rhythm section of drummer Zack
Humphrey and alternating bassists Will Krause and Bryan Wright. Eschewing the progressive rock stylings of their earlier work, Megafauna reaches back toward the proto-metal haze of
Black Sabbath and Sir Lord Baltimore while ushering it skyward with sharp melodies and the space-rock production work of Curtis Roush and The Bright Light Social Hour.
The album was crafted throughout 2015 in the cloistered bungalow studio of The Bright Light Social Hour and given a muscular mix by veteran engineer Erik Wofford (Black Angels, Bill Callahan). Through a deep look inside and above for new awareness, Megafauna has forged their most vital work to date.
Consequence of Sound premiered "Doubt," the third track to be released from the new album. Ben Kaye said, "they�re blending their past efforts� psychedelic prog-rock and proto-metal styles into a twisting, rhythmic assault of sound."
Previously, the band shared "Panpsychist" via SPIN, who said "Though the track opens with a metal-touched riff, it slowly warps into a psychedelic excursion, more fitting of its theme: Panpsychism, the belief that all material objects have an element of consciousness."
Stereogum premiered "Desire," the first song to be released from the album. Collin Robinson said "...for their upcoming LP, Welcome Home, they�ve revisited proto-metal in a major way, supporting it with cutting melodies and cosmic trips... The album�s opener, 'Desire,' is like a slowly built Jenga tower in which one piece gets pulled and an all-out rhythmic assault ensues."
