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When <a href="spotify:artist:13rHmjtJmlIJ2aDyJc7CLV">Justin Vernon</a> left Raleigh, North Carolina by way of Eau Claire, Wisconsin indie folkers <a href="spotify:artist:6arKuGbH3PuYfGN6yJ7RA9">DeYarmond Edison</a> to go on to late-2000s indie wunderkind status as <a href="spotify:artist:4LEiUm1SRbFMgfqnQTwUbQ">Bon Iver</a>, the remaining members of <a href="spotify:artist:6arKuGbH3PuYfGN6yJ7RA9">DE</a> -- <a href="spotify:artist:3pqmhj6H08f5rGsnVroz9E">Phil Cook</a>, Brad Cook, and Joe Westerlund -- carried on in North Carolina as Megafaun. With an impossible to pinpoint, laid-back lo-fi sound incorporating <a href="spotify:artist:1PCZpxHJz7WAMF8EEq8bfc">Byrds-esque</a> harmonies, elegiac folk picking, and off-kilter instrumentation (think a rougher around the edges <a href="spotify:artist:4EVpmkEwrLYEg6jIsiPMIb">Fleet Foxes</a>), Megafaun earned accolades beyond their feted former bandmate. The trio gained solid enough reviews for the sparse debut disc Bury the Square in 2008; however, Megafaun's sophomore release the next year, Gather, Form & Fly, on the <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Hometapes%22">Hometapes</a> label, drew raves, with high marks from the Onion AV Club and <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Pitchfork%22">Pitchfork</a>. The mini-LP Heretofore arrived in 2010, followed by the band's eponymous third full-length outing in 2011. ~ Jason Thurston, Rovi
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