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Recommended by us on 11th March 2011
...according to our Brian on Thu 10 Mar, 2011.
This band are one set of strange cats. Like their last album but denser, more blissed-out & free-flowing, this is everything that is exciting about modern progressive rock. I don't quite know what they're aiming for, space perhaps, but this album moves your mind around like a helpless pawn in a game of cosmic mysticism & zen-like song-mastery. Every chasm & fold of the rock cannon is distilled into something that could quite easily destroy the genre - blues, country, psychedelia & folk. One moment has them shredding like Hella, then they're off floating like Flaming Lips in a surreal tribal mantra-state......there's forever tons going on but it's never laboured, cluttered or contrived. They've obviously got something really special going on these people & I'm honestly bowled over at how fun & ecstatic this crazed critter of a disc is! The production is full, kaleidoscopic & lush. Get involved, this is the best A/F so far yo!
· This album was written in a cabin built into the
side of Mount Meakan, an active volcano in Akan
National Park, on the island of Hokkaido, Japan. It
was recorded in an abandoned train station in
Detroit with Chris Koltay (Liars, Women,
Deerhunter, Holy Fuck, No Age).
· Akron/Family spent the end of 2009 and half of
2010 exploring the future of sound through bent
acid punk diamond fuzz and underground
Japanese noise cassettes, lowercase micro tone
poems and emotional Cagean field recordings,
rebuilding electronic drums from the 70s and
playing them with sticks they carved themselves.
Silly Bears
Island
A AAA O A WAY
So It Goes
Another Sky
Light Emerges
Cast A Net
Tatsuya Neon Purple Walkby
Fuji I (Global Dub)
Say What You Want To Do
Fuji II (Single Pane)
Canopy
Creator
Healing Vapour Prismatic *
* = Bonus Track (DOC045LP
Only)
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