A Place to Bury Strangers Essentials

A Place to Bury Strangers Essentials

You’d expect a band headed by an effects-pedal technician to bring the noise. And certainly, with their self-titled 2007 debut, A Place to Bury Strangers lived up to the name of frontman Oliver Ackermann’s sideline guitar-gear biz, Death by Audio. On early rippers like “To Fix the Gash in Your Head,” the Brooklyn group updated the fuzz-pop nihilism of The Jesus and Mary Chain for the digital age, unloading skull-splitting shards of feedback atop a mechanized strobe-lit pulse. But on later releases, they’ve deployed their sonic assaults more strategically: Over the throbbing post-punk bass of “Never Coming Back,” Ackermann’s squall creeps into the mix like an incoming tornado.

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