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Akron/Family
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Time Out New York, Issue #490, 2/17-23/05blurbAkron/Family is four lads, three extreme beards, one weird name and a cavalcade of sounds both ecstatic and pensive. The quartet, which is anticipating the release of its Young Gods debut in March, attacks its expansive and joyfully chaotic music with a keen, if quirky, sense of determination....
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Akron/Family
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Time Out New York, Issue #490, 2/17-23/05blurbAkron/Family is four lads, three extreme beards, one weird name and a cavalcade of sounds both ecstatic and pensive. The quartet, which is anticipating the release of its Young Gods debut in March, attacks its expansive and joyfully chaotic music with a keen, if quirky, sense of determination....
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Akron/Family
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Time Out New York, Issue #490, 2/17-23/05blurbAkron/Family is four lads, three extreme beards, one weird name and a cavalcade of sounds both ecstatic and pensive. The quartet, which is anticipating the release of its Young Gods debut in March, attacks its expansive and joyfully chaotic music with a keen, if quirky, sense of determination....
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Akron/Family
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Time Out New York, Issue #490, 2/17-23/05blurbAkron/Family is four lads, three extreme beards, one weird name and a cavalcade of sounds both ecstatic and pensive. The quartet, which is anticipating the release of its Young Gods debut in March, attacks its expansive and joyfully chaotic music with a keen, if quirky, sense of determination....
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Akron/Family – Self-Titled
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Neufutur"they are an alternative to the acceptable forms of music"A very sedate style of music that mixes together Radiohead, Neil Young, and David Bowie, Akron/Family begins their self-titled CD with a track that almost seems dated in its delivery. “Before and Again†is much more before than again, an anachronism that is fixed with “Suchnessâ€. The flittering flutes of “Suchness†afford the track some atmospheric relevancy – it honestly feels as if one is outside when listening to the track. Nature is almost another instrument on this disc, and puts a spin on this disc that seemingly all Young God releases have – this self-titled disc hearkens back to the immediate (19th century) past of America. Everything seems randomly-placed on tracks like “Italyâ€, the disc’s breaking-point; an eight-minute epic, “Italy’s†splashy drums and chorus of singers are practically the only things that keep the track from sinking like the “Titanicâ€. The disc seems to be divided into tracks due to purely commercial means. Akron/Family’s output is much more of a forty or fifty minute opera, with a number of movements. When Akron/Family finally goes radio-friendly (in Running, Returning) is where I can begin to understand why the band was signed.......