Akron/Family: American trio continues to confound on its sixth album

The U.S.A.’s Akron/Family continues to confound…in a very good way. Case in point: their brand new disc – number five if you’re counting – S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT, out February 8^th.

The music jumps higher and delves deeper into the great unknowns as compared to the beautiful mess that came before, an uplifting patty-cake of noise rock, free jazzbo experimentation and, heard below the crunches, zaps, beeps and bangs, honest-to-god pop music.

Still working as a trio, rumors abound the creation process for their new baby Shinju – in a cabin in Japan on the hills of an active volcano? Wtf!?! – but what we do know for sure is that it was birthed with the aid of Chris Koltay, a man who’s boarded for Liars, Women, Deerhunter, Holy Fuck and No Age, in an abandoned train station in Detroit Rock City. Whoah!

Akron/Family
February 19^th | Il Motore
179 Jean-Talon Ouest
with Delicate Steve
www.akronfamily.com