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Akron/Family played Bowery Ballroom w/ M Geddes Gengras & Eric Copeland (pics/setlist); new LP out this week (stream it)

photos by PSquared Photography

Akron/Family at Bowery Ballroom – 4/24/13
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Akron/Family are about to drop their new album, Sub Verses this week (4/30) (stream it) and they’ve been supporting that on a tour that just landed the freak folk crew in NYC for a show this past Wednesday (4/24) at Bowery Ballroom. Support at the show came from Eric Copeland of Black Dice, and Sun Araw collaborator M Geddes Gengras, who also joined Akron/Family during their set. The House List writes:

M. Geddes Gengras rounded out the quartet, and either through causation or correlation, seemed to define their sound. Manning a circuitry station that looked like a futuristic switchboard, he brought heavy rhythmic pounding, deep-bass keyboards and plenty of digital ephemera to the normal A/F genre inbreeding. This seemed to elicit a decidedly dark edge to the usual bouncy sound: High-thread-count sheets of guitar nestled under a duvet of constant drumming to make a bed fit for a dark sonic nightmare. The band spent much of the set exploring the space between noise and music, making no effort to make them accessible or to explicitly sell anyone on their upcoming release. No matter, the crowd was very much into it.

More pictures and the setlist from the show below…

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