Family

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Like most families, Le Loup has grown since its inception. What began as the bedroom project of Sam Simkoff is now a full-sized band, with all five members contributing vocals and songwriting credits. The band's music - originally a blend of keyboard loops, banjo, and computer wizardry - has grown as well, encompassing everything from shape note harmonies to polyphonic percussion.
Simkoff and band-mate Christian Ervin produced Family themselves, having previously worked together on the band's debut, The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly (2007). Unlike that first album, Family doesn't rely on synthesizers or electronic support. Instead, the musicians took a more elemental approach, capturing the organic sounds of their instruments before treating them with various effects.
The result is an album of experimental rock songs and campfire sing-alongs, set amidst swirling textures and murky production. Le Loup is still a young family, of course, but Family is nothing short of a musical coming-of-age, and adulthood never sounded so promising.