Akron/Family are not afraid to fuse wildly divergent aesthetics. They draw from the finely honed songwriting and production of pop groups like the Beatles and Beach Boys, but they also dig the exploratory sprawl of the Grateful Dead and free jazz, as well as a lot of other things. On , they work with various collaborators to reimagine, mess with, and generally make strange S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT, a full-length the group released in 2011. The new tracks often turn the earlier material into something else entirely: glitchscapes, ambient slices, and spacey electronics that barely hint at their sources. The defaced originals are like distant, half-remembered memories — hazy fragments float or echo or get yanked about — forcing the listener to drop expectations and listen with fresh ears. A lot of remix albums consist of tracks that have discrete identities, but seems to work differently. The whole album is an extended meditation on The Cosmic Birth: its collection of vocal and instrumental shards recedes into the overall sonic collage.

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