" The Fauns... cite people like My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive and Ride as their shoegazing influences from the early 90s... it's a very pretty record in places, quite powerful in other places..."
- STEVE LAMACQ (BBC RADIO 6)
"This album is a pleasure to listen to. The music is undoubtedly nice, the electronic ambience pulses gorgeously on each track, and it has the requisite warmth - the Fauns sound like being in bed and never wanting to get out... If you are happy with blissful, cuddly shoegaze then you should check this lot out right away as they have the sound nailed and will soothe your troubled heart."
- COLLECTIVE ZINE
"An impressive debut album from Bristol's The Fauns, who have managed to combine a swirling mesh of guitars and ambience with enthralling songwriting."
- ROBIN ALLPORT (CLUB AC30)
"...The Fauns have it all just right. Gorgeous songs, delicious sounds, glowing textures and a perfect shoegazing delight of a debut album. A glorious celebration of the scene that continues to celebrate itself... Unashamedly influenced and all very early 90’s... this comes highly recommended. "
- THE ORGAN ONLINE MAGAZINE
"Soundtrack to my Saturday"
- ULRICH SCHNAUSS
"...one of my favourite album releases to come out of Bristol this year so far... Fronted by the heavenly singing of Alison Garner, lyrical depth is dropped in favour of phased, amorphous melodies buried behind layer-upon-layer of warm, fuzzy guitar, giving the vocals a dreamy and laconic 'voice-as-an-instrument' vagueness... the guitars soar to towering heights in a sonic musical landscape of uplifting etheral numbness..."
- PAUL TOWLER (BRISTOL ROCKS)
"..this a fine album that is almost an allergic reaction to the skinny jeans Libertines/Razorlight-esque rock still currently doing the rounds, and is all the better for it."
- TASTY FANZINE
"The Fauns’ self titled debut album comes as a superbly crafted, dreamy compilation of tracks that takes the listener on a journey, from the sadness of many melancholic vocals, to the hugely uplifting melodies."
- JAMIE CAMERON (IS THIS MUSIC?)
"The Fauns self-titled debut album arrives riding on the back of a swirling shoegaze rainbow, channelled directly from a more naïve and flowery parallel dimension. Celestial vocals spill out from within chiming guitars, barely audible words whispered by lead vocalist Alison Garner as she weaves delicate melodies around the warmly projected cacophony. The album gently pulsates with a wide-eyed charm..."
- RAMSAY COOPER (WHAT'S ON)
"If this year has proven one thing in shoegaze, it's that the genre can still sound exciting and fresh after all these years... bands from all over the place are popping up and making wonderful, engrossing music... One band who's sound is destined to make similar strides are Bristol's The Fauns."
- MATTHEW BRITTON (PIGEON POST)
"This is the softer side of shoegazing where swirling atmospherics wash over the speakers. Added to this is Alison Garner’s light, aching vocals to caress each song, making them even smoother. Jangly affairs like ‘Understand’... are multi-layered and mesmeric, ‘Come Around Again’ revolves around a subtle hook and ‘Fragile’ is simply lovely as its slow percussion, effects and Garner’s tender tones build into a fabulous glacial melody."
- LEONARD'S LAIR
"Brilliant new album..."
- BBC RADIO BRISTOL INTRODUCING
"There’s nothing like a dynamic arc on The Fauns’ self-titled debut. Instead the songs are barefoot sprints through sun-soaked, rippling fields of grass, all the world’s bright clean colors converging at your demand. As with many successful dream-poppers, The Fauns display an elfin or fairy-like ambivalence toward convention and craft, not so much subverting as shrugging, smearing their paints together for a saturation that lifts the listener when most heavy shoegazers would choose to bury."
- THE NOTES BLOG
"It is shoe-gazer meets pop, and it actually works. Songs like ‘The Sun is Cruising’ pulp together a wonderful blend of My Bloody Valentine and latter day Yo La Tengo – it is fuzzy and distorted yet somehow still light and airy. Bristol is a lucky, lucky place – the rest of the world awaits."
- SARA CURTIS (SUBBA-CULTCHA)
"The evolution has finally been made in the most glorious transcendant possible way. You don't just find a new MBV or Cocteau Twins everyday, and so this is deserving of a new word. Faungazing, and i am a Faungazer."
- SKY VORPAL
"This album will change how you listen to music. The songs aren't so much stories as raw unbridled emotions: the soundtrack to your life. Walk home listening to this on your iPod and everything you feel is magnified ten times: the happy will laugh, the sad will cry... revel in what is a fantastic piece of musical artwork."
- MAKABI JOHNSON (LEEDS MUSIC SCENE)
The Fauns 'The Fauns'
01. Lovestruck
02. Cool Stuff
03. Understand
04. The Sun Is Cruising
05. Fragile
06. Road Meets The Sky
07. Black Sand
08. Deranged
09. Come Around Again
10. 1991
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