I'm here to talk about A Place to Bury Strangers, specifically their album Exploding Head. Yeah, yeah, welcome to last year, whatever. APTBS is one of those bands who sound nothing like anything else out there - further to that, they are outstanding and should be checked out immediately.
Their sound is like surf-rock played at the bottom of an elevator shaft - the riffs grate and twang like steel reeds and bring to mind visions of beaches of brass shavings, where waves of mercury lap the shore and all the surfers wear respirators.
The album roars to life with It is Nothing, the guitar starting up like a motor and the vocals a broken, echoing lament. It clocks into my personal favorite track - In Your Heart - a track sure to boil your blood an spread through your body like ink in water. The rhythm-guitar crashes back and forth like echoes in an abandoned hospital. It shakes you down at high velocity, it makes you run, man. Keep Slipping Away amps down the tempo and makes me feel like I'm sitting in a Tiki bar on some Venusian shore. Just alien brilliance. It takes noise-rock to a new level.
Just lend an ear and fly into space.
Really.
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