Akron/Family & Angels Of Light - Akron/Family & Angels Of Light
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 5 Ratings

  • Summary: This split LP includes seven new Akron/Family tracks and five new songs from Michael Gira's Angels Of Light project (which, of course, features backing by Akron/Family).
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 15
  2. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. A complete album of epic scale, musical significance and a highly prescient lesson in listening, participating and challenging.
  2. 80
    Heady, bodily, beautiful stuff. [Jan 2006, p.126]
  3. None of the tracks are more noteworthy than anything on Sing "Other People", Angels' latest and straightest LP, and the foreshortened format disables development. But Gira's fatherly measuredness is a nice foil to Akron's hyperkinetic mini-opera.
  4. 60
    Gira's Angels side... loses its way in bluster and dirge. The Akron tracks, however, are a revelation. [Dec 2005, p.109]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 1 out of 2
  1. MDavis
    8
    This album is incredible. The first 8 songs from Akron/Family are bracing and beautiful. You will jarred by the way the beauty of the opening track "Awake" slams into the mind-blowing rock of "Moment" and from there it's hard to quit listening. Expand
  2. TomJ
    1
    there's nothing beautiful about 8 hipsters groaning, making abrasive noise, and singing horribly off-key. this album gives me a headache.