- Record Label: Young God
- Release Date: Nov 8, 2005
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Pair Akron/Family with Angels of Light and what you get, apologies to the label-sensitive, is Grade A art rock.
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Alternative PressThe collaboration is far from perfect... but the players take plenty of risks, ultimately emerging with a new sense of discovery and a whiff of greatness. [Feb 2006, p.120]
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Gira's half is solid, but Akron/Family can't help but demand most of the credit for the record's artistic heft and overall cohesiveness.
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Cheers to the second installment of this beautiful friendship.
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MojoHeady, bodily, beautiful stuff. [Jan 2006, p.126]
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A rare, perfect instance of collaboration, where two distinct sets of talents merge into something larger than its parts.
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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.
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Gira creates music that draws on tradition, but constantly strives to be challenging, and in this album, as on Other People he reaches a good balance between the accessible and the haunted stop sign. The only true failing, really, is placing it after Akron/Family's insanely energetic series.
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Q MagazineIt's a place where sweet harmony vocals and extreme rock meet, like Crosby, Stills & Nash through an art-punk shredder. [Dec 2005, p.148]
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It is completely different from either Akron/Family's or Angels of Light's work from earlier this year, and in Akron's case, represents a startling pace of artistic development.
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A complete album of epic scale, musical significance and a highly prescient lesson in listening, participating and challenging.
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This split album breaks new ground for Akron/Family while continuing to affirm Michael Gira as a reputable singer/songwriter.
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Under The RadarOne of the year's most unlikely breakthroughs. [#11, p.105]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 8
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Mixed: 1 out of 8
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Negative: 1 out of 8
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TomJJan 26, 2006there's nothing beautiful about 8 hipsters groaning, making abrasive noise, and singing horribly off-key. this album gives me a headache.
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MDavisJan 12, 2006