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Last year, Akron/Family almost landed two albums in my top ten, their self-titled debut and the rougher, more exuberant split with Michael Gira's Angels of Light. It didn't seem fair, and anyway, I was having a lot of trouble reducing my list to ten, so very late in the year, I just switched the split with the debut, which had been holding down #2 all year to that point. This is not really very interesting, but the point is that Akron/Family is a really exciting, challenging band, changing so fast from record to record that you can hardly keep up and working about as hard as it is possible for four 20-something guys to work.

I talked to Miles Seaton recently about Akron/Family's new album Meek Warrior and the results of that interview are here:

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/features/article/6178/perpetual-motion-an-interview-with-akron-family/

I also interviewed Seth fairly early on for Splendid, so if you feel like going back, back into time (and don't mind the lightly edited Q&A format), here's that one, too:

www.splendidmagazine.com/features/akron

There are some real audio clips in the second one, but they're all from the first album.