Akron/Family - Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free reviews
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| Drownedinsound |
 When they appeared on (or in parallel with) the “freak-folk” scene a few years back, Akron/Family seemed like unashamedly retro, flowers-in-their-beards kinds of fellows. The biggest surprise is that they’re now a trio – given the massive sound of many of the songs here, and superb ensemble-playing you’d think would take an entire Incredible String Band. That’s a fair reference point, because the arrangements dart between acoustic folk and 70s-style prog (when it still had one foot in the blues). There’s no mimsy here, though, and certainly none of the “listless strumming and a pump organ” approach to “folk” by many contemporary bands: the guitars have a Byrds-y fluidity, the time-changes are frequent, the percussion never lets this become background music, and the vocals often holler, rather than feigning delicacy with the default hush of ersatz-folk....full text |
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| Prefixmag |
| Maybe the title Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free is an allusion to the departure of Akron/Family member Ryan Vanderhoof, which now makes Akron/Family a trio, but the title more likely has to do with the band's expansive, tripped-out musical leanings. So what exactly is being set free on this release?...full text |
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| Crammed |
Crammed Discs is proud to bring you news of our exciting marriage into the Akron/Family – a band creating an inimitable, kaleidoscopic brand of global psychedelic folk rock music.
After building up a great, word-of-mouth reputation during the last four years, and gathering an ever-growing legion of obsessive fans, Akron/Family are on the verge of a major breakthrough with Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free, their new album which will be released in Europe by Crammed on May 4th, 2009.
Set 'Em Wild... is set to be one of the year’s landmark releases and, as its cover suggests, sees the band effect their own entirely unique and inclusive vision of a United States of Music. From the impossibly slinky ethno-funk groove that kicks off first track Everyone Is Guilty onwards, it’s clear that this band adopts a wonderfully lateral approach to guitar-based rock music (why else, after all, would they be releasing on Crammed?). Aside from the band’s signature close harmony vocal hooks (often found swelling into quasi-tribal ensemble chant ecstasy), the Akron/Family musical vocabulary packs in Fela-like rhythmic momentum, heady Funkadelic guitar chops, intricate Ali Farka Toure chord tapestries, skittering, almost Timbaland-esque electronic percussion, frenzied gusts of Albert Ayler brass... there are, in fact, very few musical styles not to find a place at this Family’s table, and they all come laced with warm, infectious folk-pop melodies....full text |
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