UPCOMING
EUROPEAN TOUR DATES (NOVEMBER 2009)
PRESS QUOTES ABOUT
SET 'EM WILD SET 'EM FREE:
Is this what Animal Collective would sound like if Avey and Panda turned down the synth faders and slapped on a fresh coat of Americana?... Freaking/Awesome
- Pitchfork, USA
Their folk is of a most freaked variety, spliced in between rambling but purposeful jams heavy with polyrhythmic Afrobeat (and) a heavy and enveloping chaos that owes at least as much to the explosive ragas of Lightning Bolt as to former Young God labelmate Devendra Banhart. It’s a gleefully varied spree... captures the riotious, magical bustle of their live shows... seek it out
-Mojo (four stars)
A great big shapeshifting beast, incorporating everything from Fleet Foxes-styled baroque folkery to dancing African rhythms, psych-rock freak outs and loads more besides. Seriously good stuff
- Q (four stars)
Le rock américain s'est à nouveau assumé en défricheur de pistes, comme au temps où de grands insurgés comme Tim Buckley ou Captain Beefheart montraient la voie (oblique) à suivre. Akron/Family figure aujourd'hui parmi les têtes de liste de ce parti du désordre... programme poétique, associant la raison pure et le plus sauvage instinct...
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Les Inrockuptibles (France)
Nous sommes définitivement accros à Akron.
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ARTE TV (France)
Despite their third album being the product of Akron/Family's most skeletal crew yet, it actually sounds like everyone they've ever met is also along for the ride here. Not to mention The Grateful Dead, John Coltrane, Fleet Foxes and a hundred forgotten 1960s folk and rock groups they found in second hand record shops in Brooklyn… Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free is music made with imagination really let off the leash. Long may they roam untamed
- bbc.co.uk
Throw Animal Collective's madness, the Fleet Foxes' ensemble vocals, Yeasayer's tribalism and Jimi Hendrix's riffs in a big pile, and Akron/Family will emerge from it, whistling away, and with a handful of world-class songs in their hand. Super band! Super album!
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Rif Raf (Belgium)
Akron/Family s'avère véritablement génial... intense bouillonnement créatif... Ce quatrième LP place confortablement le groupe parmi les toutes meilleures formations américaines du moment
- Magic (France)
Des tubes en or... une créativité insoupçonnée à l'aune de la décennie. Akron/Family est un grand groupe. Pour nous, les Nuits Botaniques 2009 se sont passées ici, le samedi 16 mai.
-Le Soir (Belgium)
A dazzling album, a definitive statement from a much-misunderstood band
-Gigwise (five stars)
Gigantesque Akron/Family... impossible de quitter la salle avant la dernière note
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La Libre Belgique (Belgium)
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