Akron/Family - Love is Simple
The psych-rock, folk-pop, trance-inducin', communal-love lovin' outfit conjures pure bliss on their second album 2ser Supporters have the chance to win a copy all week on Breakfast, Overdrive and Static.
Akron/Family Says: Notes on Recording Love is SimpleRecording is not… so simple… Almost a year has passed now… And before that almost a year since we had been together in a room and not on the road. All of us scattered as quickly as possible to new homes after returning from a tour and another tour that bled together and never stopped. We didn't really talk much, or hang out and sit on the stoop together any more. We had lovingly hugged each other goodbye and tried to forget the van with no heat and the bronchitis and everyone's combined smells for a while to clear our heads and fall in love with other things for a summer. So when it came time to sit down and play for the first time in front of only ourselves, each of us had our own little bout with stage fright. But at last with glee we let loose. We remembered how sweet the other's laughs could be, how great guitar solo's were, and how 4 voices in a room could feel like a happening. We had FUN! And so from songs inside our heads, and words on papers in accordian folders, and playing in Seth's parent's garage and getting yelled at by neighbors, we took these songs to Canada and then settled down with them in the woods of New Jersey to record with Andrew Weiss… We met Andrew at a bowling alley in Asbury Park, those same Springsteen stomping grounds. All long hair and glasses and sandals and cigaretted he invited us to his house to record. After finding out he had made all the Ween records (except for the country one) and then comparing us to the Boredoms, we were sold. And so somewhere in the woods of New Jersey, where the lands are filled with Midwestern ceramic sculptures, mirrored lawn ball pulpits, pine tree grapes, and voodoo iconography, we settled in for two weeks to record our second fourth record… Andrew challenged us in ways unforeseen. He fed us copious amounts of stovetop espresso 3 hours past bedtime, he told us how Neil Young had always eaten a huge bowl of pasta right before a show, he reminded us that the records we loved and grew up on all lived in "no place", that Hall and Oates didn't get it right until their 10th try, and finally, he made us try again, and again, and again… The completion of our first cycle, this record is both a love letter to the past and a launching pad into the future. And in a way not before captured, this record has the unmistakable field holler of friendship and brotherhood… Hues from all our records emerge and then dematerialize back into the portaled journey from beginnings to new ends. On the way we see the friendly sounds we love so much only to have them eventually submerge back into the watered universal womb to prepare for what is TRULY next, what new lunged Hendrixian wonder world lays ahead for humanity and sound… Suoni per il Popolo, the future: we will fuck shit up!
-Love, Akron/Family
