Megafauna will release their album Olympico on April 28, 2023. Ahead of the release, the band have share “Dozer” the first single to be released The song is available now on all streaming platforms.

On “Dozer” the band’s Dani Neff says:

‘Dozer is one of the most aggressive songs on Olympico. I’d even call it metal adjacent. In this song, I plead to Dozer, a symbol for Shiva, the Great Destroyer, to take down our patriarchal system. My bandmate, Winston, brought me the song as an instrumental piece with the name Dozer. Hearing the name and how heavy it was, I felt the song should be about destruction to make way for something better. This was right around the time that Roe was overturned. After a heavy guitar driven first half, followed by a mellow Portisheadesq middle section, the song culminates in a raucous festival of voices and a guitar driven climax. Over the end I sing, “Did you think I would freeze in a cell? I’ll retire with my ladies in hell. With my foot on the gas I’m a goblin… Dozer start it over right now.”

Megafauna is also announcing several upcoming shows in support of Olympico. The band will be performing in March at Treefort Music Fest in Boise and in Seattle at the Belltown Yacht Club. In April, Megafauna will play at MoCo Festival. Additional shows will be announced in the coming weeks.

Jolting from headbanging math rock to an ethereal wash of psychedelia to grungy, garage riffage in an instance, Megafauna blend angular rhythms with various melodies in a way unlike their Austin, TX rock and roll peers. Led by the ethereal vocals and guitar skills of Dani Neff, Megafauna draw from progressive powerhouses like Rush and The Mars Volta, avant-indie instigators Radiohead and Unknown Mortal Orchestra and contemporary shredders like King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard and Mastodon. The band has evolved over the years to the current lineup of Zack Humphrey on drums, Will Krause on bass and Winston Barrett on guitar/keys, each bringing a precision and edge to the outfit.

On the band’s expansive sixth full length album, Olympico, they worked with producer/engineer Charles Godfrey (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, …Trail of Dead, Swans, Holy Wave). Together, they collectively shaped an energetic and diverse record that adds to the Megafauna canon. The opening line sets the tone as Neff curiously sings “Say goodbye to normal people” on the track “Sunday Saturday.” The following tracks pulse with their signature rock sound before giving way to lighter moments like the psychedelic bossa nova of “Sometimes Island” and the indie math rock number “Dozer,” highlighting the band’s wide palette and sonic range. The album confidently meanders through touches of shoegaze, doomy stoner rock, sludge and various corners of the heavy, progressive and alternative rock esotera.

Neff titled the album Olympico after a character in Claire Lispector’s novella “The Hour of the Star.” This character is the epitome of a sexist man but for the purposes of the record, Neff turns him into a woman and changes the spelling. One theme winds its way throughout the album: women grappling with the patriarchy. On “Sunday Saturday,” Neff sings about wanting to leave the world and break the frame. In Dozer, Bi Postal and Rage of the Queen, we hear of revolutionary protagonists actively attempting to upend the system, pleading in “Dozer” – “Dozer, start it over right now.”

Megafauna
Olympico
Track List

1. Sunday Saturday
2. Olympico
3. Bi Postal
4. Capsize
5. Sometimes Island
6. Yellow
7. Dozer
8. Lookout Mountain
9. Rage Of The Queen

Pre-order Olympico by Megafauna HERE