AKRON/FAMILY + HUSH THE MANY

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Loose Lips Sink Ships magazine presents:
AKRON/FAMILY
HUSH THE MANY

 AKRON/FAMILY (Brooklyn, NY)
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 and more recently they brought their psych-folk sound to the Astoria as guests of Devandra Banhart and went down a (quiet-ish) storm. Tonight is an opportunity to see an extended set by this much talked-about quartet, but firstly here are six things you need to know about Akron/Family:
1. they are very mysterious.
2. they possess abundant noodling capacity, BUT
3. they'd like to be able to reahearse more.
4. they play music for people who like boats.
5. for those, ak ak (erm, go back to 1 again)
6. is not very mysterious
The single best thing about this band is the way they play together…There is chest-beating, melodica-wheezing, the twinkling of glockenspiel, thick, hairy basslines; but they do it in harmony. In understanding of each other, almost intuitively. At one point in the show, Seth throws a penny whistle across the stage over Miles's head,and Ryan catches it, like it was attached to his hand all along, and starts playing. When the songs are slower, more contemplative, it's like watching anemones move together. - sophie harris, from Loose Lips Sink Ships
www.akronfamily.com
www.myspace.com/akak