ABOUT THIS ITEM

After building up an incredible, word-of-mouth reputation during the last four years, gathering an ever-growing legion of obsessive fans, Akron/Family are on the verge of a major breakthrough with their inimitable, kaleidoscopic brand of global psychedelic folk rock music. "Set 'Em Wild..." is set to be one of the year's landmark releases and, as its cover suggests, see s 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. Aside from the band's signature close harmony vocal hooks, 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... and all are laced with warm, infectious folk-pop melodies.

Tracklisting
1. Everyone is Guilty
2. River
3. Creatures
4. The Alps And Their Orange Evergreen
5. Set 'Em Free
6. Gravelly Mountains of the Moon
7. Many Ghosts
8. MBF
9. They Will Appear
10. Sun Will Shine (Warmth of the Sunship Version)
11. Last Year