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"Akron/Family is a folk-influenced experimental rock band that formed in 2002, and is currently based in New York. Though each member of the band -- Dana Janssen, Seth Olinsky, Miles Seaton and Ryan Vanderhoof -- can be relegated to loosely defined roles (drummer, guitarist, bassist, vocalist/guitarist respectively), all of them in fact play several instruments and sing, as evidenced by their shows and recorded material: Live, the band uses improvisation and four-part harmonies in prominence. On their self-titled debut record, field recordings of a creaking chair, thunderclaps and the white noise of a television find their way alongside psychedelic and electronic elements, guitars and a glockenspiel.

In 2003, the band began sending demos to Young God Records label head Michael Gira, who announced the following year their signing to the label. Akron/Family, culled from several albums worth of material recorded in the band's Brooklyn apartment, was released in March of 2005. The Wire said, 'Akron/Family's hushed leftfield pastoralism invite comparison with the loose US scene of folk-derived weirdness ... Immaculately interwoven electronics and the care with which each beautifully recorded track unfolds recall Chicago post-rock ...' (Davies 2005)."

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