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This is magic, pure and not-so-simple. Megafaun creates exuberant, never-predictable music that makes one’s brain expand and crackle like Jiffy Pop on a fire hot stovetop. That they accomplish this feat largely without the sturm und drang of punk or machine clatter (think TV on the Radio or The Mars Volta) is doubly impressive. While Megafaun can bring da’ noize (as the kids say) it’s their aptitude and finesse with quieter sonics and gentler emotions that generates much of the wallop on their freakin’ fabulous sophomore album, Gather, Form & Fly (released July 21 on Hometapes), which draws sinewy lines of connection between African strains and barbershop harmonies, vintage British folk rock (a la John Martyn, particularly) and modal jazz, Kinks-ian pop and musique concrete.
The vast array of musical colors on Gather could be kinda dizzying except for the firm grip the trio – Joe Westerlund (percussion) and brothers Brad (guitar) and Phil Cook (banjo, keys, various), aided here by members of The Rosebuds, Mount Vernon, Tender Fruit and others – possesses. While seemingly all over the place listed in print, the shape they build here is all Megafaun. What bubbled up in a germinal form on their terrific debut, Bury The Square, has metastasized marvelously. They fearlessly play with space and sharply jabbed statements on the title cut but prove equally skilled at unadulterated sunshine pop on “The Fade” and spirited, right in the moment white country blues on “Solid Ground,” which delightfully recalls Johnny Winter’s yelping, string brutalizing giddiness on the Muddy Waters albums he produced in the late ’70s. Past experiences collaborating with Dreyblatt and Akron/Family have sharpened their high brow, mighty conceptualizing chops, which hover in the background, but Megafaun boldly chooses to extend a friendly paw on Gather, eager to wag their tail and gobble up Scooby snacks with any kind human that reaches back towards them.
It’s a path perhaps less angled at general critical tastes, which tend to reward darkness and edginess with gold stars far more readily than they do empathetic, positivity arched chameleons like Megafaun. Their loss because Gather, Form & Fly is the kind of record that will pull you from the dumps, change your thinking (on a number of subjects) and remind you of music’s endlessly mutable charms.
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• Wiggins goes fourth after stage 18
• Contador wins time trial to increase his lead
“Time is my everything,” Bradley Wiggins tapped out on his Twitter site a couple of hours before the start of race today’s against the clock, quoting Ian Brown, the former lead singer of the Stone Roses, but it was not destined to be a day on which the clock became his plaything.
After losing the advantage of a promising start to a 40km time trial around Lake Annecy, however, he did well enough to ensure that he ended the day in fourth position in the general classification of the Tour de France, two places above his standing when he rolled down the starting ramp.
The time trial is his speciality, its disciplines honed during his reign as the world’s finest individual pursuit rider, and the course, including a third-category climb, appeared to be made for him. But, like all the contenders for the overall victory, he was outshone by a staggering ride from Alberto Contador, who took over the maillot jaune in Verbier last Sunday and used today’s stage 18 to make it virtually certain that he will wear it all the way to Paris this weekend.
Starting last, Contador was a yellow-clad streak of lightning cutting through the heavy air on a day when thunder rumbled in the surrounding mountains. Much earlier in the day the Swiss rider Fabian Cancellara, the Olympic time trial champion, set an impressive time of 48min 33sec and appeared to have secured a repeat of his victory in the opening stage in Monaco. But when Contador arrived at the first check-point, after 18km, the stopwatch suggested that he was moving in another dimension.
Inevitably his exertions took a toll, and his margin over the field gradually diminished as he circled the lake, but he came home in a time three seconds faster than that of the Swiss rider, with Wiggins, the closest of the challengers to his overall leadership, a further 40sec behind.
It was a demonstration worthy of his compatriot Miguel Indurain, a prodigious time trial performer who won the Tour five times in a row between 1991 and 1995, and on Sunday there will surely be a second victory in three years for Contador.
He explained that he had eased up towards the end of Wednesday’s stage, when he and the Schlecks were climbing the Col de la Colombière, in order to conserve his energy for the time trial. “That was an important factor,” he said.
He had started off thinking only of preserving his leadership, but when he saw his time at the top of the hill he decided to go for the stage win. “I knew Cancellara had gained a lot of time on the descent,” he said, “so I focused on going down the other side of the climb as fast as possible.”
The Schleck brothers, whose combined assault on Wednesday had lifted them to second and third places overall, experienced mixed fortunes. Neither is a time trial expert but, while the elder, Frank, lost 2min 34sec to Contador and dropped to sixth in the standings, the younger, Andy, limited his deficit on the day to 1min 45sec and held on to his second position, now 4min 11sec behind the yellow jersey, as a reward.
“I didn’t lose too much,” the 24-year-old Luxemburger said with a relieved smile at the end of a day that might have brought much worse news. He emphasised that he and his brother are looking forward to Saturday, when the race’s penultimate stage takes the riders up the Mont Ventoux, where they will again be hoping to use their climbing skills to isolate and attack Contador.
On the day Lance Armstrong announced that the principal sponsor of his new team will be RadioShack, a US chain of electronics stores, the seven-times winner failed to respond to signals and could finish no higher than 16th, 1min 30sec behind Contador. Frank Schleck’s bad display, however, lifted Armstrong to third place in the standings, 1min 14sec behind the younger Schleck but now a mere 11sec ahead of Wiggins.
The Englishman’s performance was clearly compromised by his earlier labours in the Pyrenees and the Alps, where he kept pace with the world’s greatest climbers. He was always likely to be presented with a bill, and it arrived on the Côte de Bluffy where he began to struggle.
His start had been fast enough to raise hopes of an ideal way to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the last time the Tour stopped by the side of this lake in the Haute-Savoie, when a stage from Annecy to Chalon-sur-Saone was won by Brian Robinson. That day the Yorkshireman was following up his achievement of the previous year when he had become the first British rider to win a Tour stage.
Wiggins has yet to join the list of Britain’s Tour de France laureates, but one of them, his current Garmin-Slipstream colleague David Millar, did not stint with his praise. “If you’d asked me three years ago whether Brad would have been in contention going up the mountains, I’d have said no,” the Scot announced after coming in with a time good enough for fifth place on the day, two seconds ahead of Wiggins. “But after seeing his determination and how hard he’s worked to be in such great physical condition, I’m proud to call him a team-mate. He inspires me.”
Saturday’s rolling stage from Bourgoin-Jallieu to Aubenas is likely to be a day of recovery rather than inspiration for those still in contention for a place on the podium, before the Giant of Provence discloses how much Wiggins, Armstrong, Andy Schleck and Andreas Kloden have left in the tank. The man in yellow, however, appears to be away and gone.
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Graeme Swann insists England are still favourites to win the second Test against Australia, despite a fine stand between Michael Clarke and Brad Haddin.
The duo guided the tourists to 313-5, 209 runs adrift of the 522 victory target after a superb unbeaten 185-run fifth-wicket partnership at Lord’s.
But Swann said: "They will have to break a world record to beat us.
"We still have a new ball with Andrew Flintoff roaring in at 90mph and James Anderson swinging it at the other end."
After declaring without adding to their overnight total of 311-6, England – who have not beaten Australia in a Test at Lord’s since 1934 – reduced the tourists to 128-5, with Marcus North the final wicket to fall as he misjudged a Swann arm ball.
But vice-captain Clarke found excellent support from Haddin to record his 11th Test century, ending the day 125 not out, with the wicketkeeper unbeaten on 80.
Although no team has ever scored more than 500 chasing a fourth-innings target in Test cricket, Australia coach Tim Nielsen believes his team can create history.
"I think the only reason no team has chased 521 before is because the game usually does not move as fast as this game has," he told BBC Radio 5 Live.
"As far as we were concerned it was absolutely, no question, a catch"
Graeme Swann on Phillip Hughes’ dismissal
"At some stage in the future a team will chase down 500 – I hope it’s us on Monday."
However, Swann believes England’s seamers can utilise the overhead conditions to their advantage as they seek the all-important early breakthrough.
"Our bowlers are going to come charging in and do what has happened with the new ball on most days," said Swann, who finished with figures of 2-62.
"Wickets tend to fall in groups, so if we get one then two will be close behind. It wouldn’t be an Ashes Test if it wasn’t nail-bitingly close."
Three of England’s wickets were tinged with controversy after television replays questioned the legitimacy of the dismissals.
Simon Katich appeared to have been caught off a no-ball from Flintoff, while Andrew Strauss looked to have taken a catch on the bounce at first slip to remove Phillip Hughes.
But Swann defended his captain’s right to claim the catch.
"Straussy said he caught it and I was stood at third slip about two metres away and I saw it go straight in," he said.
"As far as we were concerned it was absolutely, no question, a catch.
"These days the word of the fielder doesn’t stand for much. It’s acceptable if the batsman stands his ground, but the umpire (Billy Doctrove) had a clear sight at square leg and gave it out."
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Swann was also involved in the third controversial wicket when Mike Hussey was caught at slip by Paul Collingwood, although replays suggested there was no contact with the bat when the ball spun sharply in the footmarks.
"It was the sound, deviation and that fact it went to slip – and the sheer excitement of getting one past the bat after Cardiff," said the 30-year-old.
"If it didn’t hit his edge then unlikely to Huss, who is a good mate of mine, I’m sure he didn’t deserve that. But as far as we were concerned it was a legitimate catch."
Nielsen paid tribute to Clarke, whose innings featured 13 boundaries from 198 deliveries.
"Michael talks regularly about if Punter misses out, then he’s the one that has to stand up and lead the batting side of things," he added.
"That’s his 11th Test match hundred, so he’s up into double figures and he was supported very well by Brad.
"He hasn’t played a huge amount of Test cricket but he’s a good thinker of the game and he showed that by playing a nice, positive support role.
"The big challenge will be tomorrow morning to set us up again and if we get started, we have still got a good chance of winning this game."</p
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England 364–6
Australia
A position of strength, a chance to nail Australia with the game still in its infancy, was squandered wantonly by the fragile England middle order. An opening partnership of 196 between Andrew Strauss and Alastair Cook, the highest England have made against Australia at Lord’s, had the shirt-sleeved crowd bubbling. England were romping, Australia a rabble.
But this is England and it had to be too good to last. Cook, five short of a third century at Lord’s, became an unexpected victim for Mitchell Johnson, whose bowling had been so inept, such utter garbage, that doubts were being cast on whether his South African heroics were a myth, concocted in the same studio in which conspiracy theorists insist the moon landings were fabricated.
The wicket set in motion a change in fortune in which Australia, held together by the excellent swing bowling of Ben Hilfenhaus, regained their composure as a drunk might sober up. By the time Andrew Flintoff – fit to play and greeted rapturously as he bounded helmetless down the pavilion steps – edged him to second slip, six wickets had tumbled in the afternoon for 137 runs, bringing Australia back into the game without the benefit of the new ball.
Ponting took it with four overs of the day left, to no further avail, and England must attempt to capitalise tomorrow morning. Much will depend on Strauss, who, leading magnificently, batted all day in reaching an unbeaten 161, 16 short of his Test best and his fourth and highest Test hundred on this ground. Shortly before stumps he reached 5,000 Test runs.
On Tuesday evening, at a dinner in the Long Room for his benefit, footage of Strauss’s career had been played. It had reminded the viewer that the 2005 Ashes success was not all about Flintoff and Kevin Pietersen and that at Old Trafford and The Oval, Strauss had made centuries. There was no reference, though, to the tribulations that followed in Australia in 2006-07, when brilliant planning and execution deprived him of his square cut and pulls. It took him a year to recover.
Yesterday, as if in an act of benevolence, he was fed once more, a mere handful of his runs coming in areas other than the segment between midwicket and extra cover. One on drive apart, late on in the piece, his 22 boundaries were carved away square of the wicket, clipped, angled to third man or, twice, slog-swept to midwicket.
While Cook was there, swatting boundaries across an outfield as fast as Turnberry’s greens, the sky had seemed the limit, although the Essex opener will play better for less reward. He was spoon-fed mediocre longhops by Johnson. The pitch was good – not fast as had been seen earlier in the summer against West Indies but not sluggish like Cardiff last week either – but had Australians other than Hilfenhaus had the capacity to exploit it there was movement in the air and a little off the seam down the slope. Top bowling all round would have had its reward.
Instead, galácticos from the great Australian sides sat in their commentary positions and hospitality boxes and saw, Hilfenhaus excepted, a display of shambolic incompetence. Perhaps the Lord’s experience proved overwhelming for those on their first trip. Bowling was off target, fielding ponderous and wicketkeeping comedic (although the ball dipping and swinging after it had passed the batsman did not help).
A blow was suffered shortly after lunch, when Nathan Hauritz dislocated the middle finger of his bowling hand in attempting to catch a straight drive from Strauss, then on 52. It was the only real chance he was to offer in more than six hours, although four runs previously Brad Haddin had dropped him from a Hilfenhaus no ball.
Cook’s dismissal brought in Ravi Bopara, who played with panache for 20 minutes or so, as if trying to prove a point. If he is to survive at No3 he has to learn, fast, about substance over style. A three-card trick from Hilfenhaus, the oldest of ploys on this ground, saw Bopara middle a couple of away-swingers, only to play outside the sucker ball that shaded down the slope.
A frenetic effort followed from Pietersen, either side of tea. It was the sort of innings that would be played by someone overdosing on SunnyD and it ended when he feathered an away-swinger from Peter Siddle, who had begun to find his feet after a shaky start. Paul Collingwood’s insipid chip to mid on and Matt Prior’s extravagant drive, beaten and bowled by Johnson’s in-swing – rare as hens’ teeth this summer – brought the only headshaking emotion from Strauss.
Much tomorrow will depend on the fortunes of the lower order against the new ball, and the weather. Heavy rain is due to pass through in the night but England, having included Graham Onions in their side at the expense of Monty Panesar, and sent Steve Harmison to Trent Bridge to rejoin Durham, will want to see the ball swing as it did for Hilfenhaus. If they can harness that, and Jimmy Anderson and Onions can flourish, then they can put Australia under real pressure. If not, there could be some long hours in the field once more.
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