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“October 6, 2009 just became one of the more anticipated dates of the year.”
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Naming themselves A Place To Bury Strangers the trio quickly earned a reputation as one of the most uncompromising groups around. Their music contains elements of 60s garage and the ethereal bliss of shoegazing but, y’know, a lot louder.
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“A Place to Bury Strangers, a performance rife with psychedelic noise rock overdriven to its finest heights, featured the lead guitarist and singer, Oliver Ackermann playing on a busted-up old white Fender Jazzmaster. “
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“Oliver Ackermann led the aural assault, his guitar squalls fighting an epic battle with a thumping rhythm section trying valiantly to force a beat into the mayhem. This is a man who takes his noise seriously, fine-tuning waves of reverb with various effects as only a guitar-pedal manufacturer (which he also is) could. And when he destroyed his guitar at the end of the set, it wasn’t a cocky display of frontman bravado, but just another essential sonic expression. “
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“A Place to Bury Strangers, one of the noisiest bands on the planet, return Oct. 6 with Exploding Head via Mute Records (irony). A tour has also been mapped out and will feature support from the highly underrated Darker My Love and the epic rock of a band I wished I hadn’t missed during SXSW, All the Saints. “
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“But the band is heading out on a fall tour this October, blowing gaskets and eardrums along the way in support of a new record they’ve got coming out called Exploding Head (via Mute on October 6) and you can bet we’ll be there for their NYC homecoming date, ready to lose inhibitions, blood, tears, short-term memory and hearing. All these guys ever do is annihilate.”
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“Though it’s been quite some time since I’ve checked in with them on the live circuit, I’ve been an avid supporter of New York’s fuzzed out A Place to Bury Strangers. As I’ve seen them more times than any local act, I’ve grown familiar with a slew of new and unreleased material, anxious to find out when it would appear on an official release. Well, my curiosity has been satiated, so it seems, as the band has just announced plans to release their second record on October 6th via Mute Records.”
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