Accolades
BEST ALBUMS OF 2006
HITS IN THE CAR – w/Band of Horses, Razorlight, The Radio Dept., Muse, Phoenix
RAINDOG’S RANTS [honorable mention] – w/ Bob Dylan, Joseph Arthur, Flaming Lips
BEN KRIEGER’S BEST NYC ALBUMS - w/Jaymay, Leah Siegel, Lowry +
BEST ALBUMS OF 2009
EARTASTE – w/ The XX, Conor Oberst, Black Lips
FOLLY OF YOUTH [honorable mention] – w/ AC Newman, Animal Collective, Cymbals Eat Guitars
LUCID CULTURE
BEST LIVE SHOWS NYC 2009
LUCID CULTURE
The Oxygen Ponies (2006)
“Gorgeous, hazily atmospheric and intelligently written…” Thomas Bartlett, Audiophile - SALON.COM
“Sounds great. Fans of Leonard Cohen, Elliott Smith and ‘Blood on the Tracks’ era Bob Dylan will not be disappointed…” TAPE OP No. 55 2006
“Minor-chord folk/pop for the end credits, a dozen songs delivered in a raspy voice that sounds broken beyond repair.”MAGNET MAGAZINE No. 74
“Beautifully arranged, ‘The Quickest Way to Happiness’, and indeed this album, could become modern classics if given half a chance.” Aled Roberts AMERICANA UK
Harmony Handgrenade (2009)
“This is a really quite wonderful album… Really, really outstanding stuff…I think this music is amazing” Bob Harris BBC RADIO 2 LIVE 3/21/09
“Sexy and immediate, yet at times wistful. In many ways, it could prove timeless.” Danny Wadeson THE 405
“A thoroughly engaging listen.” THE LINE OF BEST FIT
“A towering journey of utterly raw emotion and barely-contained rebellion… it seems clear that he will soon take his place among the most influential of this generation’s musicians.” Delana Barnes STEREO SUBVERSION
“The powerful sophomore album of, yes, a potential songwriting genius.” NO RIPCORD
Exit Wounds (2011)
“Megna’s sparse arrangements (lots of space between the notes) and flair for the dramatic is cut from the classic stuff of Dylans’s Blonde on Blonde, Wait’s Closing Time and just about anything by Leonard Cohen or Elliott Smith.” Tom Semioli AMPLIFIER MAGAZINE
“EXIT WOUNDS is like a night-time walk down a street of boarded up shops, dreams crushed under foot like the broken glass and hearts hung up on meat hooks. It is a haunted album of Americana noire; haunted by the ghosts of broken love and selfish souls who throw away happiness for some tinsel tawdry chimera of a glamour dream. Make an exception for this one.” AMERICANA UK
“It is Megna’s pain that carries this album so beautifully, Even in the brighter moments there is an overarching sadness. The more upbeat sounding moments of the album, like “Wild Animals”, may be few and far between but these rays of hope in an otherwise bleak outlook make the entire recording a success.” Andrew Fersch PERFORMER MAGAZINE
How Aeroplanes Fly (2020)
