AKRONFAMILY LOVE IS SIMPLE LP VINYL NEW (US) 33RPM

Track Listings
1. Love, Love, Love (Everyone)
2. Ed Is a Portal
3. Don’t Be Afraid, You’re Already Dead
4. I’ve Got Some Friends
5. Lake Song/New Ceremonial Music for Moms
6. There’s So Many Colors
7. Crickets
8. Phenomena
9. Pony’s O.G.
10. Of All the Things
11. Love, Love, Love 2 (Reprise)

One of the best bands on the planet! I don’t recall seeing such fantastic live shows ever, except maybe Pere Ubu at the Whiskey in LA circa 1978 or Ummagumma-era Pink Floyd circa 1968/9. Take those unrelated reference points and mix in The Beatles, Chicago Art Ensemble, CCR, The Grateful Dead, The Hollies, The Butthole Surfers, Led Zeppelin, and you might get a notion. Anyway, this record comes the closest to bridging the gap between the chaos, rock action, tribal bongo-banging and sentimental sing-alongs of their live shows and the necessarily more cerebral, or at least worked-over and layered process of recording