Akron/Family March 5, 2008

Akron/Family are four extremely nice, sincere and well-mannered young men from rural America who came to NYC in 2002 to make music, hoping to find a thread of real magic still winding through this city's music scene. They certainly did just that, but they did it by retreating into a tiny Brooklyn apartment, where they made their own world instead, in complete and stubborn isolation. They proceeded (while simultaneously growing alarmingly long beards and developing a playful but hermetic quasi-religious/sonic worldview/creed known as "AK" or sometimes "AK-AK") to make several albums worth of recordings on crude home equipment--the material compulsively chopped, spliced, and orchestrated into fractal jewels of song and schismatically opposed atmospheres.