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Thursday, January 6, 2011

Weekend! / News / Video Akron/Family Listening Party! Bizarre New Video!

Posted by Ned Lannamann on Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:43 PM


Here's the new video from psychedelic pilgrims Akron/Family, for two tracks ("A AAA O A WAY"/"So It Goes") from their upcoming album, which bears the inscrutable title S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT, due to be released on February 8. But you'll be able to hear the whole thing this Saturday night at Tiga (1465 NE Prescott). There are going to be Akron/Family listening parties across the country that evening, ranging from an apartment in Providence, Rhode Island, to a bonfire in Red Bluff, California, but the Portland party will be special, since two-thirds of the band moved here around a year ago.

S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT was recorded largely in an abandoned train station in Detroit over the summer, and it's a strange, spacewalking record, bearing evidence of the jammier elements of Akron/Family's sound while fleshing out the electronic mayhem that they've been flirting with over the past couple of releases.

Akron/Family guitarist Seth Olinsky says:

Party starts at 9, we will play the album at 10.There will be a dj [DJ Survival Sklz] playing great jazz and soul records the rest of the night. It will be fun, especially if you come!
Will listening to the whole album make sense of the video clip above? Probably not, but it should be a damn good time.

 

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