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• Exploding Head by A Place to Bury Strangers on Blurt Online
  “APTBS take a more lateral approach to their influences, capturing the essential feel of the bands that inspire them, rather than quoting their music verbatim.”
  (tags: aptbs review explodinghead)
• A Place To Bury Strangers – Keep Slipping Away Single Review
  “Having spent the past two years doing their utmost to convince all and sundry that their reputation as being the loudest band in New York tells only half the story, A Place To Bury Strangers more recent exploits on this year’s ‘Exploding Head’ opus suggests they’ve invested as much time in the tune department as they have exuding their infamous total sonic annihilation penchant.”
  (tags: aptbs keepslippingaway review)
• A Place To Bury Strangers: “Exploding Head”
  “On the absolutely stunning Exploding Head, the trio of singer/guitarist, Oliver Ackermann, bassist, Jono MOFO, and drummer, Jay Space realize their full potential”
  (tags: aptbs explodinghead review)
• Album Review: A Place To Bury Strangers / New Album Reviews / New Music News from THE-FLY.CO.UK – The latest album releases, tours and festivals. The Official Website for The Fly Magazine.
  “A Place To Bury Strangers mark their debut on Mute with an aggressive, sinister record that’s as spooky as it is impressive.”
  (tags: aptbs review explodinghead)
• Vinyl Tap » Blog Archive » A Place To Bury Strangers – “Exploding Head” (2009)
  “A Place To Bury Strangers have certainly turned in a remarkable second record with Exploding Head. True, there’s a bit of filler in the first half, and the whole thing is cleaner and a bit less visceral than their debut. But the album’s many high points dispel any notion of a sophomore slump, demonstrating the band’s growth as songwriters and precision as a unit. Hopefully that will be enough to shift some attention from Death By Audio to the songs themselves.”
  (tags: aptbs review explodinghead)

• VITAL REVERB: DECEMBER 11, 2009
  “In the case of APTBS, this approach manifests itself as a guitar pedal, not a surfboard. Oliver Ackermann, the trio’s frontman and owner of Death By Audio, has designed foot tools for the likes of U2, TV On The Radio, and, least surprisingly, My Bloody Valentine. Ackermann spared no expense with his own equipment, saying, “Some of our pedals even have a setting that will blow up your amp. And that’s also the state of new and exciting music. It’s on the edge.” Brilliant.”
  (tags: aptbs review explodinghead)
• SURFING ON STEAM: A Place to Bury Strangers: ‘Ocean (Live at Rufustival)’ Video
  “APTBS are all about frequencies and escape, but this clip captures their spirit as well. Love it.”
  (tags: aptbs video ocean)

• ATP Nightmare Before Xmas Curated By MBV: Day 3 – Strangeglue – Music News, Views and Reviews
  “APtBS’s Oliver Ackerman trumps all by delivering the loudest and possibly our favourite set of the weekend. More ambiance-creating performance art than mere dark and smoky concert, the set contains no crowd banter, as Ackerman has probably already paid off the sound booth for the levels Heasley had to coax out onstage. APtBS take no prisoners in this ATP’s volume war–a war of attrition fomented by bands paying homage to curators MBV’s legacy of disintegrating earplugs. We’d call ourselves victims of the aural aggression but we’re actually really liking it”
  (tags: aptbs uk)
• ATP My Bloody Valentine: Sunday / In Depth // Drowned In Sound
  “Band of the weekend, no contest. “
  (tags: aptbs review uk)
• múm, and School of Seven Bells end a fantastic ATP weekend – All Tomorrows Parties – Nightmare Before Christmas 2010review
  “Showing their shoe gaze influences, tracks such as ‘I Know I’ll See You’, ‘In Your Heart’ and ‘Dead Beat’, all sound simply incredible live, and at 4 in the afternoon, although seeming slightly surreal, as the band definitely suit a night time slot, the band were offered one of the performances of the weekend.”
  (tags: aptbs festival uk)

As usual, a collection of links to reviews and news from blogs and a variety of Web sites about A Place to Bury Strangers. We start with a link to a 40+ minute video of the band’s performance in Amsterdam in November. The video is well done, and worth the view.

• 3VOOR12 – Tv
  42 miinute video of aptbs in amsterdam nov20 2009. This is really worth the view, if you like APtBS (and who doesn’t?)
  (tags: aptbs live video amsterdam)
• A Place To Bury Strangers is coming to the Rhythm Room | Factory Made Future
  “Lead guitarist/vocalist Oliver Ackermann uses the pedals and special effects boxes he builds for his company Death By Audio brilliantly throughout. Though this band is deafening, there’s so much melody and rhythm in these songs. “
  (tags: aptbs phoenix az)
• :.. A Place to Bury Strangers and The Big Pink to Tour Together Next Spring | Under The Radar ..:
  “Brooklyn’s A Place to Bury Strangers and their U.K. shoegazing cousins The Big Pink will tour America together next spring.”
  (tags: aptbs bigpink tour)
• A Place To Bury Strangers Touring With The Big Pink | CHARTattack
  The most seizure-inducing, head-exploding, ear-bleeding extravaganza of a tour ever has been announced.
  (tags: aptbs bigpink tour)
• A Place to Bury Strangers Grabs The Big Pink for Spring 2010 Tour | Sentimentalist Magazine
  ““New York’s loudest band” is set to hit the road with one of West London’s noisiest for one of the most appealing bills of Spring 2010, if a big, bad wall-of-sound is your bag.”
  (tags: aptbs bigpink tour)
• Pitchfork: The Big Pink Tour North America With A Place to Bury Strangers Next Spring
  “It had to happen. As winter turns to spring, two of the finest current practitioners of swagger-drenched, ear-bleeding noise-pop– the sort of thing that used to see heavy rotation on “120 Minutes”– will cross North America America together. London’s the Big Pink and New York’s A Place to Bury Strangers like their guitars dangerously loud, their drums mechanistic, and their hair elaborately messy, so this pairing just makes sense.”
  (tags: aptbs bigpink tour)
• Review: A Place To Bury Strangers – Exploding Head – Brain Stem
  The kicker is that “Exploding Head” feels whole instead of a handful of winners surrounded by filler. I hope to hear more in the future and look forward to the further interpretation of shoegaze by a band who definitely understands its elements.
  (tags: aptbs review explodinghead)
• NSR CD Reviews: A Place To Bury Strangers – Keep Slipping Away
  “The recurring guitar riff is a thing of absolute beauty, making the song feel like a classic from the get-go.”
  (tags: aptbs review keepslippingaway)
• DADA RECORDS BLOG: DADA’S TOP 50 ALBUMS OF 2009!
  “When the album stops you realise that you have just come out of a shoegazing war and that A Place To Bury Strangers are the generals leading you into battle.”
  (tags: aptbs review explodinghead)
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• A Place to Bury Strangers Tour with The Big Pink, New Single Out This Week | Ventvox
  “The kindred bands have been neighbors on many of 2009’s year end best of lists and The Big Pink proudly uses APTBS frontman Oliver Ackermann’s Death By Audio pedals.”
  (tags: aptbs bigpink tour)
• In Your Heart… For A Very Long Time
  “one of the more brilliant aspects of the band is their progressive take on a rocking dark wave movement; just as bands like The Strokes revived the garage rock sound, APTBS should be revered as the band who incited the return of new wave”
  (tags: aptbs reveiew)
• A Place To Bury Strangers « Absolutely Horrorshow
  “. Ackerman reprised his demented lunging dance, wantonly playing dissonant chords and holding his guitar right next to the amp to create piercing feedback. Eventually he just threw his guitar on the ground, snapping all of its strings save for one which he desperately strummed, trying to wring out the dregs of lost sound.”
  (tags: aptbs munich review)