For nearly two decades, And So I Watch You From Afar have quietly built a formidable reputation amongst ArcTanGent regulars and other post-rock cognoscenti. Their 2022 release Jettison, a 40-minute suite recorded with a string quartet, felt like they’d scaled the summit of their ambition, inadvertently raising the question of what they could possibly do next. The answer turns out to simply have a ruddy blast. Megafauna was conceived as a tribute to their friends and hometowns, although as it’s entirely instrumental you wouldn’t necessarily know if the band hadn’t mentioned it. What does come through is a sense of joy and playfulness; the screwball post-punk energy of Button Days is totally infectious, while throughout the album there’s a sense that t...