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90
Fauna is quietly, but confidently, a beast of an album.
90
Fauna is often dazzling in its kaleidoscopic, intricately detailed weave of prog, djent, and metal.
85
With Fauna, Haken has done a great job of encapsulating all eras of their career while still pushing in different directions.
84
There are some occasional stumbles throughout the tracklist, but Haken’s songwriting and arrangement skills take these bursts of technical energy and transform them into compelling musical ideas, and Fauna can easily be considered another triumph in that department.
70
"Fauna" goes out on some seriously long and dangerous limbs.
70
Haken's seventh album finds them opening up musically and metaphorically.
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Don’t let the distinguished gentleman on the cover fool you, this is big and blaring prog-rock project with some interesting sound design thrown in. While some tracks unfortunately including the intro are mildly uninteresting, the album really picks up and becomes a rush of heavy guitars. The Alphabet Of Me is a key track for this. The weird cuts between the chords and silence gives the instrumental a unique and incredibly enjoyable feel. The deep and extremely messy piano riff on Beneath ... read more
"The Alphabet Of Me" is quite possibly one of the best progressive tracks I've heard. Period. The first 4 tracks in of themselves are stunning in their delivery and have so much nuance about them. The stabs of guitars, the unique vocal arrangements, all of it encapsulated me... Until track 5. It falls off there and I found myself not enjoying it, because hot DOG do the last 4 also hit. "Lovebite" is blissful, "Elephants" is batshit crazy, god damn. An album like ... read more
It was an enjoyable listen. Nothing crazy, but it's fun.
Favourite tracks: Beneath the White Rainbow, The Alphabet of Me
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Track List
| 1 | Taurus 4:48 | 82 |
| 2 | Nightingale 7:24 | 82 |
| 3 | The Alphabet of Me 5:33 | 80 |
| 4 | Sempiternal Beings 8:23 | 86 |
| 5 | Beneath the White Rainbow 6:45 | 83 |
| 6 | Island in the Clouds 5:45 | 80 |
| 7 | Lovebite 3:49 | 75 |
| 8 | Elephants Never Forget 11:07 | 83 |
| 9 | Eyes Of Ebony 8:32 | 77 |
Total Length: 1 hour, 2 minutes
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3d
i really don't want to attend the same zoo as the people who keep joking about nfts on this page
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Added on: December 8, 2022