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.
I already voted in that poll.
One of my fav concert memories is from their show at Towne Lounge a few years ago. The “singer” (well they all sing) gave this great speech admonishing the gum flapping assholes in the audience to refrain from talking during their set because sometimes the band plays real quiet and wants those parts to be heard without the inane jibber-jabber of scenesters (as people had RUDELY yammered through Plants set). Then they burst into the first tune which is a high volume pummeler in the vein of The Swans. GOLD!!!!!!
That’s funny. I saw them open for Menomena at MFNW and it was like being punished for someone else’s crime. Other than the excellent “River,” the entire set was noisy shit. I would have given anything to have the bar noise drown out their directionless noodling. I have never seen an audience so bored.