Akron / Family ‘Love is simple’

akron family love is simpleThere I was sitting at my desk waiting for a client to get back to me about a project I was working on and i decided to drop by the Young God Records web site as I do every now and again and I found a video on there of a live performance form the additional DVD that comes with the limited version of this CD.

I had seen the previous album around a lot whilst I was lining in Australia but avoided it as it was always recommended by folks who’s tastes I found a little out of tune with my own, anyway the live performance blew me away, it was loud and noisy but with a real melodic and metronomic hypnotism about it but most of all you could tell that the sounds I was hearing where being made by folks who where having a heap of fun making them. I ordered the CD form the record label as I often prefer to do, as I think that you get a much better service over ordering from the likes of amazon. Another good label to order stuff direct from is Southern Records, anyway it eventually arrived from the USA and I slipped it in the side of my machine and immediately fell in love with the sounds I was hearing, a perfect mix of folk, noise, psychedelia and voodoo, I can think of no better suited label then Young God for them as the musical spaces remind me so much of the latter period Micheal Gira’s – Swans & Angels of Light. My eldest has the title tracks on her Ipod and looking at the amount of times she listens to it makes me a proud father.

In Summary

An album that never fails to put a smile on my face and I cant wait to see them live.

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  1. agreed! would love to see these guys live – have played them on the radio a few times. just putting together a show now (as kind of guest DJ for Mind De-Coder, see: http://www.waihekeradio.org.nz/minddecoder) and have included a song by them.

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