Akron/Family - Sub Verses

"A conflation of orchestrated jazz, Prog Psych, R&B and devotional mantras. Their hermetic hero guitars serve the master sky..." — Michael Gira, Swans

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"The Akron/Family builds disparate parts into something explosive or holy or both, time and again on Sub Verses. There's no mythic volcano to stamp the narrative; there's only a radical harmony, divergent strands threading together." — eMusic

Sub Verses, the newest release from the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Akron/Family started with visions of large monumental sounds inspired by Heizer and Turrell; American works on a grand scale, monuments, dirty hands and an epic American masculinity. Dust, Stone, Sky, Earth. These broad, bold strokes would come to pass but not quite as expected.

"As with other Akron/Family records the Idiomatic perspective shifts restlessly," says vocalist/instrumentalist Miles Seaton. "From Shamanic hypno-mantras to noise-damaged soul anthems to North african street frenzy, from droning microtonal balladry to modular synthesizer destruction to Lynchian doo-wop and back again. The sound is propulsive and driven by it's physicality, and a disciplined acknowledgement of lineage. Akron/Family is here, with drums and guitars like divining rods calling on Sonny Sharrock and Link Wray, on Elvin Jones and John Bonham, on Jimmy Garrison and Aston Barrett. But when we sing we are calling on ourselves, on the deep river of inspiration that connects the whole. We are singing old stories. The narrative thread is one of the desert, that ancient ocean floor, long dried to reveal a barren expanse of scorched fossils. Of life and death and time, of a vision of a people, weary and traumatized — driven from their nobility and sense of purpose to the brink of total nihilism under the lash of information overload. Intelligence giving way to remix culture, nothing to do but blindly live as customers, stumbling, content drunk through the digital bazaar. A bunch of fucking payers. All of us. The hot wind is blowing hard on us and what is there to do but turn our face to it and sing?"

1. No Room

2. Way Up

3. Until The Morning

4. Sand Talk

5. Sometimes I

6. Holy Boredom

7. Sand Time

8. Whole World Is Watching

9. When I was Young

10. Samurai

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