• Exploding Head A Place To Bury Strangers Album

There are many bands today that get compared to My Bloody Valentine and The Jesus and Mary Chain, yet few actually have the sound that could have a similar impact today like those bands had in their day. A noise that is not an occasional motive, but constantly present and striking, layered above a foundation of good songs and power chords. Well, A Place To Bury Strangers have that. Exploding Head is an album that is beautiful. And heavy – it takes me an effort to listen to it from start to finish. I wouldn’t expect it after years of listening to all kinds of stuff: my ears hurt a bit.

But man, it is good. Sometimes it’s even danceable, sometimes it’s new wave going evil. But mostly it is interstellar overdrive.

Exploding Head A Place To Bury Strangers Album

Discography Full-lengths 2007 - A Place to Bury Strangers 320 kbps 2009 - Exploding Head 192. A Place to Bury Strangers – Discography. A Place to Bury Strangers. Drawing inspiration from shoegaze, classic indie rock, and atmospheric and dark sounds of all stripes, the Brooklyn-based A Place to Bury Strangers is the project of.

Though called their second album, it's arguable that their debut, with its walls of low-rent distortion and abrasive beats, was more cranium-crushing. Even if the band's move to Mute resulted in cleaner, ever-so-slightly calmer surroundings for their music, ' sound and songwriting have more power and nuance here, as well as more structure - nearly every song balances the black-on-black menace of their debut with pop appeal.

Nowhere is this clearer than on 'It Is Nothing,' which opens the album with a three-minute burst of buzzsaw guitars, or on 'Lost Feeling,' which boasts a subtle tension and dive-bombing dynamics that wouldn't have been possible on the band's debut. This faithfulness to shoegaze's dark side sets apart from many of their fellow revivalists who favor wispy, cotton-candy clouds of sound. Befitting their name, the band is still obsessed with death and destruction, be it physical or spiritual (as on the aptly fuzzed-out epic 'Ego Death'). Interestingly, 's more polished production brings out some of the more retro elements in the band's music, underscoring their fondness for goth, synth pop - and in 'Deadbeat's case, surf rock - as well as their shoegaze foundations. They sound more like a pissed-off, guitar-enhanced than ever on 'In Your Heart,' and close the album with 'I Lived My Life to Stand in the Shadow of Your Heart,' which offers heroic doses of pure effect pedal-stomping heaven. At times, listeners of a certain age will swear they heard one of these songs on college radio or saw one of the band's video on 120 Minutes or PostModern MTV - 'Slipping Away' in particular has the feeling of a forgotten classic - and that's a compliment. Is a fine step forward for, and shows they're among the best bands bringing shoegaze into the 21st century.