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Akermann’s Stage performance is really compelling to watch, and it’s not a put-on. He rips into his guitar, spitting bitter lyrics and reverb-drenched guitar hooks, and exploring effects pedals while convening a penetrating sense of dread and isolation without the least bit of self-awareness or even acknowledgement of the audience that’s witnessing this sonorous copulation.

“If you can’t exactly tell what it is that’s creating these sounds, it just sort of turns into this pure feeling and emotion,” he says.
“It becomes kind of ambiguous and beautiful.”

“”Last night we saw the “loudest band in NYC”-A Place To Bury Strangers. One of my favorites” – Chris Buzelli”

“that it is beautiful to experience the result of the human desire to create and to beautify”

“The band did, however, begin to live up to its hype during the second half of the set when it extended its songs and focused more on texture and noise.”

“APTBS lived up to their noisy rep, generating tremendous breaking waves of reverb-drenched feedback. “

Some probably had no idea what they’d just witnessed and the rest were in total awe of how their eardrums were just brutalized – whatever the case may be, A Place To Bury Strangers totally blew the Metro into oblivion.

“Ackermann’s trio always kills onstage, and Wednesday night at the Theatre of Living Arts was no different; it has so perfected its post-punk My Bloody Valentine assault that it can toy with it now, mixing in cleaner pop-styled tunes like “Exploding Head” (ironically one of the softer ones) and straight three-note surfabilly (“Deadbeat”) among the excruciating (in a good way) noise jams.”