The Fauns - S/T

Artist: The Fauns
Album: The Fauns
Year: 2009
Genre: Dream Pop, Ambient
Country: U.K. (Bristol)

Dream pop is lovely. The Fauns are lovely.

In all seriousness though, this album is blissful, beautiful, bright, and various other adjectives that start with the letter B. Okay, NOW time to get serious. The Fauns are from the United Kingdom, essentially the spawning point of Dream Pop and Shoegaze. They are a 6 piece, fronted by Alsion Garner, and signed to Laser Ghost recordings. They are slowly becoming readily known, which is great.
However, this band is Dream Pop, not Shoegaze. If you are looking for aggression in the guitars, you're looking in the wrong place. Think Pygmalion era of Slowdive, with their ambiance. The guitars are luscious, if anything. But really, the band definitley has more emphasis on the frontwoman, at least more so than most bands reviewed here. But don't think this just a vocalists work, this band is a collective.
Short and sweet review but, whatever. This album is great, and very beautiful. Its the kind of thing you would listen to while looking out a car window, watching clouds, trees, grass and houses fly by. Its also kind of a wintry album, slow and dark. Deemed bawwcore on last.fm, presumably for this reason. Anyway, just download it. Play it in a car or something, it doesn't really matter.

Tracklist:
1. Lovestruck
2. Cool Stuff
3. Understand
4. The Sun is Coming
5. Fragile
6. Road Meets Sky
7. Black Sound
8. Deranged
9. Come Around Again
10. 1991
11. Lovestruck (Tunnel of Love Mix)

Link: Steve Lamacq