Posted on October 18, 2009 - by Mark Zonda

A Place To Bury Strangers

When tension rises at its highest apex, brain is like a buzzing have of troubles and the only thing you want is take your car (or somebody else’s one) to push it at its higher limit running through a holy friday fucking night, you don’t even need music anymore, or an hymn to shout outloud. All you’re looking for is just “A Place To Bury Strangers”.

New York has always been a fine place for melting sounds and experiment different experiences, the band from Olivier Ackermann it’s not an exception. The electric rage of Sonic Youth, distorted guitars and delays, are melted with Jesus and Mary Chain convulsed rhythmics and Nine Inch Nails androgin distance from their listeners.

Their self-released “Breathe EP” – from 2005 – is in my opinion still the most accessible work the band has ever made. “Just Out of Reach” (a Jesus & Mary Chain cover) holds catchyness and noise at the same time, while the opening “Breathe” will shock your head just like a bullet hitting you in the happiest moment of your life (keep any detail for yourself). The real potential of the band it’s shown on the Joy Divisionesque “Missing You”, a hot boiling magma blob where the right producer (Brian Eno?) would be able to shape out  the most epic and universal piece of music of ever.

What about “Exploding Heads”, the craziest, most fucked up recording ever? If you need your ears to be split apart from the brain from some obscure reason, its live carried by band on their infinite World tour is the definitive choice whether Machis and Dinosaur Jr are not in town.

A Place To Bury Strangers – “Everything Always Goes Wrong”

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