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  Everyone Is Guilty

Lots and lots of ringing going on in there...note to self: TURN DOWN THE AKRON/FAMILY I'm not much in the mindset for a full review...so, long story short. I've always ignored Akron/Family. For no reason, other than I've got SOOOO much to listen to, sometimes a good album gets passed over. Not so much ignored, but glanced at, and forgotten. Their new album, Set 'em Wild, Set 'em Free, though,...

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  Ed Is a Portal

2007 was poised for greatness. Around this time last year, we knew that we'd have new records from Modest Mouse, Arcade Fire, Radiohead, New Pornographers, PJ Harvey, Andrew Bird, Iron & Wine, and scores of other established acts. The future of popular music never looked brighter. And while none of those records were by any means terrible, my personal expectations were slightly less than met, a...

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  Phenomena

Here's a track off the latest album from indie folk outfit Akron/Family, who record for Michael Gira's Young God label. The new album is Love Is Simple. Where's they ever get that crazy idea?

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  Don't Be Afraid, You're Already Dead

...with Akron/Family's Love Is Simple. I'm all caught up in the bizarro - hippie-love - acid - trip - in - the - woods feel of the record, and I just keep hitting repeat. There have been plenty of "really good" records so far this year, but few have cut me to the core like this one. Definitely a contender for best of '07. Here's one of my favorite tracks:The album cover (more info on it "here":...

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  Meek Warrior

Last year, Akron/Family almost landed two albums in my top ten, their self-titled debut and the rougher, more exuberant split with Michael Gira's Angels of Light. It didn't seem fair, and anyway, I was having a lot of trouble reducing my list to ten, so very late in the year, I just switched the split with the debut, which had been holding down #2 all year to that point. This is not really ve...

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  Don't Be Afraid, You're Already Dead

After the Angels of Light brilliant record "We are Him":http://www.younggodrecords.com/product.asp?P_ID=46, it looks like "Young God records":http://www.younggodrecords.com/default.asp is about to release another contender for this year's best albums.According to Michael Gira, "Akron/Family":http://www.akronfamily.com/mainstreet.htm are _four extremely nice, sincere and well-mannered young men...

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  Blessing Force

I'm listening to the new Akron/Family, Meek Warrior which is out on Young God next week, and it's fantastic. The first cut, "Blessing Force" is a nine-plus minute free-jazz leaning freakout, which has a lot of fans' panties in a bunch, but look, they've always liked the improv, it's in the self-titled too and what is "Raising the Sparks" but an extended riff? Anyway, I noticed that MOG has sl...

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Coming off the heels of numerous shows at SXSW (one of which had all of team Drunkard in awe) Akron/Family is primed for the release of their fourth record, Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free (out May 5th on Dead Oceans). AD spoke with Seth Olinsky, guitarist and vocalist with the group during some downtime [...]

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  Gone Beyond

So I've got a co-worker who has fairly similar musical tastes with me - I think I veer out into the harder end of the spectrum farther than he does, but we share a lot of good music between us. Co-worker was kind enough to share with me a disc of some stuff one of his friends put together for him, and man there's some REALLY good stuff on here - Akron/Family being the stuff that's sticking best...

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You've heard "Everyone Is Guilty," the opener from the retooled, tighter, and relocated Akron/Family's forthcoming fourth full-length Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free. It began with spare junkyard percussion then entered into backwoods funk and various...

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  Love and Space

As the day draws to a close, I sit listening to music while preparing for summer classes at Penn State. I'm scheduled to audit Spanish 2, my worst subject in high school- and to make matters worse, since I took four years of Spanish in high school, I'm not allowed to take Spanish 1 or 2 for credit in college!Brooding about my luck, this little diddy, Akron/Family's "Love and Space" popped up on...

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The Brooklyn based four-piece folk group Akron/Family have announced the release of their second full length. ??Love Is Simple?? drop September 10 via Young God Records.In support of their sophomore venture, the group has also committed to a what a spokesperson described as a grueling North American tour.Akron/Family - "Love Is Simple"Following the release of their self titled debut in 2005 the...

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