Artist A Place To Bury Strangers

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A Place To Bury Strangers

Brooklyn’s A Place To Bury Strangers makes the sort of beautifully brain-pounding, feedback-drenched noise that was once the forte of its most obvious influence, The Jesus And Mary Chain. No “You Trip Me Up” moments of calm here, though—APTBS focuses instead on that perfect moment when the feedback wells up over the music and stretches it out into an endless wall of sound and fury. The band’s 2007 self-titled debut was enough to land it a deal with Mute Records, which released 2009’s Exploding Head. Like the previous record, it’s an exercise in guitar pedals as weapons of mass destruction—not a surprise, given that frontman Oliver Ackermann is the founder of an effects-pedal company named Death By Audio.

Updated 10/07/2010