Perhaps a cautionary tale of what happens when one spends too much time in front of the TV and gets sucked into the world of technology, “Keep Slipping Away” is the latest video from the Brooklyn trio and brings out Ackerman’s maniacal tendencies. His obsession with sounds and images is all-consuming and seems to be the cause for his decaying on-camera romance. When it looks like you’re a lobotomy patient, would you expect a happy ending?
I played Drake’s “Best I Ever Had” in groups of six, saw Wilco back-to-back at The Wiltern, put my right-hand high with Kid Sister, blew a kiss to Ben Gibbard as Hollywood Bowl exploded with fireworks, chilled with A Place to Bury Strangers, worked-out to Miike Snow, beatboxed with Matis, moved to Silver Lake, boogied down at Nightmares on Wax, got blinded by Mandy’s rock, took my clothes off at Phoenix…
A Place to Bury Strangers is a worthy challenger to the noise-rock kings of Los Angeles, aka HEALTH. With their second album, Exploding Head, the New York-based trio delivers an experimental album of ambient tones woven together with shoegaze textures with enough force to induce whiplash.
What makes APTBS more than a bunch of kids making ear-splitting jams is their approach: it's quite clear that Oliver Ackermann is an aesthete and diligently works through the tracks until he achieves a sweet spot amidst all the cacophony. The ...
A Place to Bury Stangers have released the second video from their self titled debut on Killer Pimp records for their song “The Falling Sun.” Directed by David Yoonha Park the video is chock full of slow camera pans and somewhat cheesy sci-fi effects that were pulled from a late ’70s made for TV movie called Lathe of Heaven based off a Ursula K. Leguin novel. Mashed with the atmospheric psychedelic sounds and you have a finished product that is APTBS’ second video.
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