FAUN FABLES
Counterclockwise
Boomkat Product Review:
Arriving nearly a decade on from 2016's crunchy 'Born of the Sun', Dawn McCarthy and Nils Frykdahl's latest Faun Fables set is their deepest yet, a time-fluxing prog-folk odyssey that traipses across Appalachia and Europe.
Theatrical and meticulously assembled, 'Counterclockwise' is refreshingly unhinged - it's not a particularly eccentric record, but it sounds as if it's been made in complete isolation, untouched by global developments. McCarthy and Frykdahl are confident and familiar with folk, pop and psych developments until around the early '70s (we can hear girl groups muddled with country-rock and Cambridge prog), and then rather than go forwards they track backwards, picking up lullabies and standards from the old world. The title is a reference to McCarthy and her family's understanding of time, not going against time but accepting it as a wheel, and listening in this context you can almost understand what she means. It's chewy, bejeweled material, no doubt, but nobody really does it with more conviction than Faun Fables.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Arriving nearly a decade on from 2016's crunchy 'Born of the Sun', Dawn McCarthy and Nils Frykdahl's latest Faun Fables set is their deepest yet, a time-fluxing prog-folk odyssey that traipses across Appalachia and Europe.
Theatrical and meticulously assembled, 'Counterclockwise' is refreshingly unhinged - it's not a particularly eccentric record, but it sounds as if it's been made in complete isolation, untouched by global developments. McCarthy and Frykdahl are confident and familiar with folk, pop and psych developments until around the early '70s (we can hear girl groups muddled with country-rock and Cambridge prog), and then rather than go forwards they track backwards, picking up lullabies and standards from the old world. The title is a reference to McCarthy and her family's understanding of time, not going against time but accepting it as a wheel, and listening in this context you can almost understand what she means. It's chewy, bejeweled material, no doubt, but nobody really does it with more conviction than Faun Fables.
Boomkat Product Review:
Arriving nearly a decade on from 2016's crunchy 'Born of the Sun', Dawn McCarthy and Nils Frykdahl's latest Faun Fables set is their deepest yet, a time-fluxing prog-folk odyssey that traipses across Appalachia and Europe.
Theatrical and meticulously assembled, 'Counterclockwise' is refreshingly unhinged - it's not a particularly eccentric record, but it sounds as if it's been made in complete isolation, untouched by global developments. McCarthy and Frykdahl are confident and familiar with folk, pop and psych developments until around the early '70s (we can hear girl groups muddled with country-rock and Cambridge prog), and then rather than go forwards they track backwards, picking up lullabies and standards from the old world. The title is a reference to McCarthy and her family's understanding of time, not going against time but accepting it as a wheel, and listening in this context you can almost understand what she means. It's chewy, bejeweled material, no doubt, but nobody really does it with more conviction than Faun Fables.
Boomkat Product Review:
Arriving nearly a decade on from 2016's crunchy 'Born of the Sun', Dawn McCarthy and Nils Frykdahl's latest Faun Fables set is their deepest yet, a time-fluxing prog-folk odyssey that traipses across Appalachia and Europe.
Theatrical and meticulously assembled, 'Counterclockwise' is refreshingly unhinged - it's not a particularly eccentric record, but it sounds as if it's been made in complete isolation, untouched by global developments. McCarthy and Frykdahl are confident and familiar with folk, pop and psych developments until around the early '70s (we can hear girl groups muddled with country-rock and Cambridge prog), and then rather than go forwards they track backwards, picking up lullabies and standards from the old world. The title is a reference to McCarthy and her family's understanding of time, not going against time but accepting it as a wheel, and listening in this context you can almost understand what she means. It's chewy, bejeweled material, no doubt, but nobody really does it with more conviction than Faun Fables.
Estimated Release Date: 30 May 2025
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Boomkat Product Review:
Arriving nearly a decade on from 2016's crunchy 'Born of the Sun', Dawn McCarthy and Nils Frykdahl's latest Faun Fables set is their deepest yet, a time-fluxing prog-folk odyssey that traipses across Appalachia and Europe.
Theatrical and meticulously assembled, 'Counterclockwise' is refreshingly unhinged - it's not a particularly eccentric record, but it sounds as if it's been made in complete isolation, untouched by global developments. McCarthy and Frykdahl are confident and familiar with folk, pop and psych developments until around the early '70s (we can hear girl groups muddled with country-rock and Cambridge prog), and then rather than go forwards they track backwards, picking up lullabies and standards from the old world. The title is a reference to McCarthy and her family's understanding of time, not going against time but accepting it as a wheel, and listening in this context you can almost understand what she means. It's chewy, bejeweled material, no doubt, but nobody really does it with more conviction than Faun Fables.
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