Name: Sub Verses
Brand: Akron/family

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

51378

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Rough Trade Exclusive

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2013-04-30

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Secre­tly

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

656605137810

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Akron/family

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Akron/Family is a folk-influenced experimental rock band that formed in 2002 and is currently based in New York on the Dead Oceans label. The band consists of Miles Seaton, Seth Olinsky, Dana Janssen, and formerly Ryan Vanderhoof. Each member plays multiple instruments and contributes vocals to their shows and recorded material. Known for their improvisation and vocal harmonies during live performances, Akron/Family incorporates field recordings, psychedelic elements, electronic sounds, guitars, and even a glockenspiel into their music.

In addition to their solo debut in 2005, the band has collaborated with master drummer/hero Hamid Drake on an EP called "Meek Warrior" which showcased both traditional folk music and experimental electric guitar tracks. They have also played behind Michael Gira on his Angels of Light project.

While recording their album "Love Is Simple," Vanderhoof left Akron/Family to pursue a spiritual path at a Buddhist Dharma center in the Midwest. Despite this change, Akron/Family continued to create unique music that pushes boundaries within the folk-rock genre.

As with other Akron / Family records the Idiomatic perspective shifts restlessly. From Shamanic hypno-mantras to Noise-damaged Soul anthems to North african street frenzy, from Droning Microtonal Balladry to modular synthesizer destruction to Lynchian Doo-Wop and back again. The sound is propulsive and driven by it's physicality, and a disciplined acknowledgement of Lineage. Akron / Family is here, with drums and guitars like divining rods calling on Sonny Sharrock and Link Wray, on Elvin Jones and John Bonham, on Jimmy Garrison and Aston Barrett. But when we sing we are calling on ourselves, on the deep river of inspiration that connects the whole. We are singing Old Stories. The narrative thread is one of the Desert, that ancient ocean floor, long dried to reveal a barren expanse of scorched fossils. Of Life and Death and Time, of a vision of a people, weary and traumatized - driven from their nobility and sense of purpose to the brink of total nihilism under the lash of information overload. Intelligence giving way to remix culture, nothing to do but blindly live as customers, stumbling, content drunk through the digital bazaar. A bunch of fucking Payers. All of us. The hot wind is blowing hard on us and what is there to do but turn our face to it and sing?

Sub Verses

Music US