Akron / Family Angels Of Light / Split (angels Of Light)

Young God

“One week after returning from extensive touring with my favorite “rock band” in the world, Akron/Family checked into the studio to record this album. The songs, including five of my own performed with Akron/Family serving as (my) Angels of Light, were tracked live to tape and mixed, with minimal overdubs, in just nine eight-hour days. While on the road I watched every show this band played, from beginning to end, for nearly forty consecutive nights, and was amazed every time. Audience response was astounding; these guys simply tore down the roof.   “At no time in the twenty-five years I’ve been playing rock music have I come across a band that possesses the exuberant experimentation, flat-out intensity, and immediate accessibility of the Akron/Family. They generate such pure joy, coupled with such a wild sense of invention that it’s impossible not to get sucked into the chaos of their world: gorgeous vocal harmonies; crazed clown marches; escalating psychedelic crescendos; backwoods country stomps; genuinely touching, plaintive songs; and on and on. A friend, struggling to describe them, declared that their music contains the entire history of rock ’n’ roll. Preposterous, but sort of accurate.   “Akron/Family are also adept accompanyists. They have an uncanny ability to step into the world of my songs — without imposing their own aesthetic — and lift them beyond what I could have initially imagined. I’ve never had a better backing band.”  —Michael Gira, Angels of Light/Young God Records

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