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A Place To Bury Strangers have a fundamental understanding of elegance and beauty, it’s just that they choose to paint these decadent scenes with a barbed wire brush upon a canvas of sandpaper. Distortion is pushed to its absolute limit where it transcends into a vortex of glorious static, but there is enough subtle interplay between the light and dark to make the necessary impact when they decide to kick the windows in.
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“This is spectacularly good. “
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It all culminates in album closer “I Lived My Life to Stand in the Shadow Of Your Heart,†perhaps the most representative track. Its catchy verse-chorus blast vamps its way into a dizzying frenzy of feedback and white noise that nearly swallows itself whole by the end. It’s gargantuan, even by A Place to Bury Strangers standards, and perhaps the year’s most glorious eardrum-melting moment.
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Aversion.com | A Place to Bury Strangers – Exploding Head “It doesn’t get much louder than this, but A Place to Bury Strangers doesn’t overdo it. Every noise, every layer of feedback and drone is carefully layered on for a reason. Anyone can be loud — particularly in this age of digital recording and mastering — but it doesn’t mean much if you don’t have the songs to back up the volume. A Place to Bury Strangers sure does on Exploding Head.” (tags: aptbs explodinghead review)
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