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• The Music Fix – A Place To Bury Strangers interview
  “Their shoe-gazing heavy debut was one of 2007’s finest albums. Pulled together from demo recordings, it nevertheless left a great impression upon all those who heard it. So there was much excitement when we received the amazing follow up Exploding Head (reviewed here). Adrian Mules caught up with singer/guitarist/effects-pedal-wizard Oliver to try and find out where the all the bones have been secreted … “
• BIOMUSICOSOPHY: Video Retrospective – Skywave
  “Skywave are one of the greatest shoegaze bands ever, and undoubtedly the greatest band from my hometown of Fredericksburg, VA and to attend Stafford High School. Between 1995 and 2004, the band (Paul Baker, Oliver Ackermann, and John Fedowitz) released three LPs and seven EPs. When the band went in separate directions, Baker and Fedowitz started Ceremony, and Ackermann started A Place To Bury Strangers.”
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• The Music Fix – A Place To Bury Strangers: Exploding Head Album Review
  A Place To Bury Strangers have a fundamental understanding of elegance and beauty, it’s just that they choose to paint these decadent scenes with a barbed wire brush upon a canvas of sandpaper. Distortion is pushed to its absolute limit where it transcends into a vortex of glorious static, but there is enough subtle interplay between the light and dark to make the necessary impact when they decide to kick the windows in.
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• Sound Fix | A Place to Bury Strangers: Exploding Head
  “This is spectacularly good. “
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• Short and Sweet NYC: MUSIC REVIEWS: A Place To Bury Strangers, Elvis Costello, Headlights, Fear and Trembling, The Dimes, The 1990s
  It all culminates in album closer “I Lived My Life to Stand in the Shadow Of Your Heart,” perhaps the most representative track. Its catchy verse-chorus blast vamps its way into a dizzying frenzy of feedback and white noise that nearly swallows itself whole by the end. It’s gargantuan, even by A Place to Bury Strangers standards, and perhaps the year’s most glorious eardrum-melting moment.
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• Aversion.com | A Place to Bury Strangers – Exploding Head “It doesn’t get much louder than this, but A Place to Bury Strangers doesn’t overdo it. Every noise, every layer of feedback and drone is carefully layered on for a reason. Anyone can be loud — particularly in this age of digital recording and mastering — but it doesn’t mean much if you don’t have the songs to back up the volume. A Place to Bury Strangers sure does on Exploding Head.” (tags: aptbs explodinghead review)

It’s the first full week of October and Exploding Head was officially released on the 6th. Here are a few of the reviews on the Web.

• A Place To Bury Strangers – Exploding Head
  “Building on the eardrum shattering force of their debut, and now housed in the cathedral of unrelenting noise that is Mute, A Place To Bury Strangers return atop a wagon load of crunching, distorted riffs on new vehicle Exploding Head. “
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• A Place to Bury Strangers – Exploding Head Review – sputnikmusic
  In fact, to an unsuspecting listener, A Place To Bury Strangers’ newest album, Exploding Head might as well be the most badass thing they have ever heard. That is because it is.
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• Loom – Selva Molhada
  Songs like “In Your Heart” and “Keep Slipping Away” skilfully weave screeching feedback, crusty guitar and engaging melodies in a way that still sounds heady a quarter-century after Psychocandy blew minds.
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• Radio Flyer Review: Album: A Place to Bury Strangers – Exploding Head
  There isn’t a bad track on Exploding Head. It’s a solid, accomplished album with no filler and few misteps.
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• The Phoenix > CD Reviews > A Place To Bury Strangers | Exploding Head
  Exploding Head is less an interpretation of a forgotten sound than a restoration of an abandoned mission.
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• Exploding Head | XLR8R
  Now with Exploding Head, APTBS has refined its industrial shoegaze into something more tuneful, but no less brutal. Actual songs peek out from under the great morass of singer Oliver Ackermann’s scathing guitars.
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• Treble : Album Review : A Place to Bury Strangers – Exploding Head
  That A Place To Bury Strangers would allow their sound to evolve in a more accessible direction isn’t particularly surprising. But the fact that they also took the noisiest, most gut-wrenching aspects of their music and cranked them even higher makes this evolution even more intriguing, and just plain kickass.
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• A Place to Bury Strangers Just Made My Head Explode | Movie Reviews | Music Reviews | Behind the Hype
  A Place to Bury Strangers answers to these, with what just might be the best Post-Punk Revival record since Interpol’s debut.
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• Pitchfork: Album Reviews: A Place to Bury Strangers: Exploding Head
  “Head is most assuredly a maturation, from the songwriting right down to the fancy effects-pedal driven magic that frontman Oliver Ackermann is so rightfully lauded for (Ackermann famously crafts customized pedals through his Death By Audio company for artists like TV On the Radio and U2, but has apparently saved some of the coolest tricks for his own band).”
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• KEXP 90.3 Blog » Song of the Day Podcast
  “Whether or not you believe the hype that they’re New York City’s “loudest band,” there’s no doubt A Place to Bury Strangers knows how to turn earsplitting noise into sonic bliss.”
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• A Place To Bury Strangers: Sweet Melodies of the Ear-Shattering Kind | Sentimentalist Magazine
  “APTBS invited us into their practice space a day before they were heading to play France’s La Route Du Rock festival with My Bloody Valentine”
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• Vox Populi » Concert Calendar: Dinosaur Jr., A Place to Bury Strangers
  “these cats play some pretty mesmerizing noises. “
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• A Place To Bury Strangers – Exploding Head | album reviews | musicOMH
  This is a definite progression from their earlier material and if this is an indication of where the band is ultimately headed, then Exploding Head is likely to be the first of some very exciting albums.
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• A Place to Bury Strangers | Exploding Head
  hen it comes to Brooklyn bands, there are few as indisputably cool as A Place to Bury Strangers. Based out of Williamsburg, the band plays a detached mix of shoegaze and doom rock that evokes comparisons to bands like Joy Division, The Swans, and My Bloody Valentine — the trifecta of aloof, pretentious coolness.
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• 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. “
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• BBC – Music – Review of A Place to Bury Strangers – Exploding Head
  “Exploding Head is a rabid wolf of an album, one to make you stock up on the drugs, slip into your leathers and ride off into a pulsing, screeing, strobe-lit Armageddon, and puts APTBS up there with the likes of Fuck Buttons as purveyors of truly beautiful noise. It will, literally, blow your mind.”
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• A Place To Bury StrangersExploding Head
  “Brutal, mischievous fun, packed with tunes as hard as their ideas. “
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