Akron/Family

Founded: 2002

Headquarters: Brookyln, NY

Website Link(s): http://www.akronfamily.com/

Label(s)

 * Young God

Genre(s)

 * Freak-Folk
 * Psych-Folk
 * Indie-Rock
 * Lo-Fi

RIYL

 * Devendra Banhart
 * Angels of Light
 * Dirty Projectors
 * Joan of Arc

Band Members

 * Seth Olinsky
 * Dana Janssen
 * Miles Seaton
 * Ryan Vanderhoof

Band Biography
Discovered by ex-Swan, current Angels of Light and Young God Records founder Michael Gira, Akron/Family is made up of four Brooklynites via rural America that in 2002 decided to hole themselves up in a small apartment to create music. The resulting material, about three albums worth, was a combination of influences, experiments and a whole lot of mistakes. These musical blunders however are the cornerstone of the Akron/Family's sound which can be easily summed up as post-everything freak-folk with a heavy dose of psychedelic pop, estranged electronics and lo-fi warmness. Their 2005 debut self-titled album for Young God is a cesspool of acoustic folk that seems to improvise in a strategic manner, experiment with upmost care, completely fall apart on purpose, hum, gurgle, inspire, regret, accomplish in its mistakes, embrace and mock itself at the same time. Though fourteen songs long, Akron/Family sounds as if it is dozens of ideas carefully spliced together in a raucous yet flowing manner. During the same year the pseudo-Family released a split with Angels of Light that upheld their previously established itinerary but with considerably more volume and tempo. This time, they interlace modal free-punk explosions between whispering murmurs of music as if to raise the ecclectic bar even farther. Akron/Family's music is multi-faceted to put it lightly; but the genius of the band is how the construct their seemingly unfitting jigsaw pieces into a three-dimensional cottage of humbled walls and broken windows.

=Discography=

Albums

 * Akron/Family 2005 (Young God)
 * Akron/Family & Angels of Light 2005 (Young God)