a place to bury strangers

[shai faithe]

so i listened to this album about a million times before finally letting myself be certain of what was inevitable:
this is my favorite album in a long long long (really long) time.
the sound isn't new, but goddammit, no one that i've heard does it like these guys, this well.
the only gripe i have is lyrics, but that's really like .001% off of the total score because everything else appeals to me so much.

you guys wanna get in on the love?

[FallSemester]

a friend of mine left me like 3 messages yesterday raving about this album in a way he never raves about anything...this makes the second time I have heard head-over-heels reviews for this band.  I'll have to pick it up this week and cross my fingers that it lives up to the hype.

[ellaguru]

Thanks for reminding me of that. They sounded interesting from the Pitchfork review and then I totally forgot about them. Just snagged a couple of mp3's - they remind me of Joy Division in a lot of ways, but without sounding like they're going for any retro vibe.

[justinh]

It sounds like an exact facsimile of Psychocandy.  The Ministry comparison (via Pitchfork) is totally off the mark, to my ears at least. 

It IS pretty decent, though. 

[Maaik]

Sounds like a more dour Snowden.  Still, yeah, pretty good.

[J-Ho]

I've only heard the songs on their MySpace, but its one of the few things Pitchfork has recommended in recent time that I dig a lot.  Their whole "noise" comment chased me off of it at first.

But yeah, that's the kind of industrial/electronica sound I like.

[Andrew_TSKS]

is the title of this thread the name of the band, the name of the album, or both?

[dieblucasdie]

Both.

This album is really boring.

[guanajuato]

i wonder if this means 2008 is gonna be the year of 'twee industrial'.

[RavingLunatic]

I listened to 2 songs on MySpace, and they pretty much blew me away. I'm definitely gonna give the whole album a go soon.

[SPACERACE]

really not bad.

[Ah_Pook]

A Place To Bury Strangers have often been called "the loudest band in New York". This may very well be the case, but unlike much so-called "loud" rock and roll that's out there, APTBS is not loud simply for the sake of it. The sonically overdriven sound they've accomplished is no clumsy accident, but a carefully cultivated and well-maintained entity all its own, fostered by an unbridled passion that's clearly evident in every live show they play and each recording they make. A Place To Bury Strangers does not so much play songs as allow them to pour out. They are songs about longing, heartbreak and confusion played extremely well and at a passionately loud volume.

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anyway if they had continued the quasi industrial sound they had going in my weakness i woulda maybe been into this. the other songs on their myspace are... not so good. to fix the gash whatever has moments i guess.

[davy]

i wonder if this means 2008 is gonna be the year of 'twee industrial'.

they can call it "indus-twee-al"!!

like a cute lisp!

 

[Ah_Pook]

i chuckled

[Nick Ink]

anyway if they had continued the quasi industrial sound they had going in my weakness i woulda maybe been into this. the other songs on their myspace are... not so good. to fix the gash whatever has moments i guess.

I agree completely. I was quite taken with the too-fast rat-a-tat drum machine that starts off the album, but the rest of it really is a rehash of the ideas on Psychocandy (and I know I'm going to sound like an old fart here, but I bought that album when it came out and got to see the JAMC when their gigs were ending after 20 minutes of chaos), and one of the songs is a blatant rip of some or other early Cure song - something off Pornography maybe.

So, it's good, but I really don't feel I need it. Does that make me sound like a cynical old rockist? 

[Maaik]

If by "cynical old rockist" you mean "discerning," then sure.

[Nick Ink]

If by "cynical old rockist" you mean "discerning," then sure.

Thanks, but when I find myself saying things like that it just reminds me so strongly of people scoffing at how derivative bands I loved when I was 19/20 were (Buzzcocks -> Soup Dragons, Echo & The Bunnymen -> Mighty Lemon Drops etc.) I can see they were right now too, but it doesn't detract fro how much I loved those bands at the time. So, I have this impulse to get behind people who are digging this PTBS stuff, even though I don't myself.