Over the years I've gotten more and more interested in softer, folk inspired music. One of my favorite bands in that sort of vein is Akron/Family. Ak is the type of band that "plays" old rocking chairs, and puts thunderstorms in their songs. Their music is simply beautiful.
Akron/Family are four extremely nice, sincere and well-mannered young men from rural America who came to NYC (in 2002) to make music, hoping to find a thread of real magic still winding through this city's music scene. They certainly did just that, but they did it by retreating into a tiny Brooklyn apartment, where they made their own world instead, in complete and stubborn isolation. They proceeded (while simultaneously growing alarmingly long beards and developing a playful but hermetic quasi-religious/sonic worldview/creed known as "AK" or sometimes "AK-AK") to make several albums worth of recordings on crude home equipment the material compulsively chopped, spliced, and orchestrated into fractal jewels of song and schismatically opposed atmospheres.
From their press release
Downloads:
Ed Is A Portal
Shoes
There are also some wonderful full-length songs on their myspace page.
