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"Opening with a groove unlike anything Akron/Family have ever laid to tape, the first track on Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free kicks off a new chapter for the band. The percussive thunder and anthemic electric guitars of 'Everyone is Guilty' make a bold statement, touching on everything from Fela Kuti to Sly and the Family Stone in under six psychedelic minutes. This is not the Akron/Family you think you know. As 'Everyone is Guilty' fades into 'River' the band returns to something they have always been known for: writing a timeless hook. 'River' delivers Ali Farka Toure-like guitar work, but this song is all about the infectious vocal melody. As the album unfolds, Akron/Family's musical explorations are virtually without limits. Whether it's the celebratory sing-along gospel of 'Gravelly Mountains of the Moon,' the lush folk sounds of 'Sun Will Shine (Warmth of the Sunship Version),' or 'MBF,' which lies at the intersection of primal punk rock and heavy free jazz, Akron/Family are a band boiling over with ideas. Their musical vocabulary runs deep -- it's not just Jimi Hendrix, Neil Young and the Grateful Dead that inform Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free. Akron/Family feel at home on this album, confident and self-assured. Following a year of making things bigger and wilder live, the band returns to something simpler on Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free. With limited outside assistance, this trio has made a focused, powerful and unified work. Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free maintains the communal spirit of the big band that won audiences over throughout the world, but it showcases Akron/Family at its core - three musicians, equals, creating music from deep within. Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free is something undeniably special and immensely powerful. Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free is the new psychedelic rock."
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"The music veers from gentle American country folk to unabashed electronic noise, to gathering and erupting crescendos, to extended skronk improvisations that suddenly cut to an LSD version of a backwoods barbershop quartet or a Louvin Brothers spiritual -- sometimes all within the course of one ridiculously long 'song.' Their enthusiasm for pure sound too is evident in instances such as a squeaking chair played by Miles Seaton, all four Akrons simultaneously violently beating their chests, the resulting percussive sound being the air released from their mouths with each beat. As the band recorded with Michael Gira and Jason La Farge, a song would sometimes be described as 'too red' or 'not aluminum enough' or some other arcane reference, but inevitably, corrections made with the aid of a screwdriver or maybe the sanded metal rails of a staircase resulted in an unpredictable but 'correct' result."
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