“Despite their early associations with freak-folk and their recent voyage toward intergalactic bravado, Akron/Family have certainly flirted with righteous dosages of heaviness during the last decade. On "MBF", for instance, they blasted through walls of Bastard-sized noise; on a 2005 split with Angels of Light, they teasingly crept toward stillness, only to catapult into blasts of distortion-and-vo”