Sub Verses

Sub Verses

Akron/Family has never made the same album twice. Or come close. Even the songs themselves on a given release are often so different as to give listeners whiplash. The only sure thing is that whatever the band attempts, it'll be dark and dingy and draped in reverb. The band's high weirdness gives it free range of any genre it can squeeze into its mix of demented blues, awry folk, and bizarre psychedelia, which shakes garage rock to its core. "When I Was Young" is likely the most accessible song on Akron/Family's sixth studio album; it's a lumbering waltz where the vocals are most audible. However, "Sand Talk" turns Captain Beefheart's free jazz excursions into punk rock. "Sand Time" moderates the band's aggressive polyrhythms into glorious distorted freakouts that even throw a few catchy vocals into the maze. "Way Up" has the sound of a high mass infused by pop music. "Until the Morning" evokes the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band with its deceptively happy melody.

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