MEGAFAUNA - I Owe This Land a Body
Released: January 3 There is something that is genuinely unsettling about this album in its tone and approach. It’s not something I would call scary or frightening by any means. Rather it just feels twisted for lack of a better. The sound design on each track is stretched and muted while the structure of the tracks is rather sparse with lots of room around the pared down section of sounds. And then there is the percussion. The percussion is some of the most incredible work I have heard in quite a while as it just has such an air around it and it feels like it hits so brilliantly hard. I think one of my favorite examples can be heard on “Sea of Trees.” The rhythm itself is not overly complex but it certainly feels like it just has so much presence. Much of the percussion sounds themselves are pulled from more contemporary production in pop and hip-hop but the contextualization in this dark atmosphere with a disjointed quality makes it something dark and off-putting in a great way....
