A Place To Bury Strangers - Synthesizer

Aren’t bands supposed to get more polished as they progress through their career?

With a view to becoming more accessible, some compromises must be made to achieve further appeal, a price that many acts are prepared to pay.

However, compromise has never been part of A Place To Bury Strangers’ vocabulary. Seven albums in, if anything ‘New York’s Loudest Band’ (a title they seem unlikely to ever relinquish) get darker, weirder, scarier and – if anything – they seem newly galvanized.

The new energy can be put down to another lineup change; Oliver Ackermann remains the group’s key architect, but is joined here by John and Sandra Fedowitz, with the trio hitting the studio straight after the campaign for 2022’s See Through You was completed.

Not that A Place To Bury Strangers were ever lethargic, but – as anyone who saw their recent UK shows can confirm – there is a new sense of purpose and energy.

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