{"id":1893,"date":"2009-10-07T06:03:29","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T11:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/?p=1893"},"modified":"2009-10-12T19:39:11","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T00:39:11","slug":"links-for-2009-10-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/a-place-to-bury-strangers\/links-for-2009-10-07","title":{"rendered":"Exploding Head Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webliminal.com\/images\/sidepics\/aptbs1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 22px; margin-right: 22px;\" src=\"http:\/\/webliminal.com\/images\/sidepics\/cwdata\/aptbs1.jpg\" alt=\"Pedals at an APTBS concert\" hspace=\"22\" width=\"175\" height=\"116\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a> It&#8217;s the first full week of October and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002N1AF4K?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=webliminalbooksi&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B002N1AF4K\">Exploding Head<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=webliminalbooksi&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002N1AF4K\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> was officially released on the 6th. Here are a few of the reviews on the Web.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.subba-cultcha.com\/article_album.php?id=10281\">A Place To Bury Strangers &#8211; Exploding Head<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;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. &#8220;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/aptbs\">aptbs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/explodinghead\">explodinghead<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/review\">review<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sputnikmusic.com\/album.php?reviewid=32757\">A Place to Bury Strangers &#8211; Exploding Head Review &#8211; sputnikmusic<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">In fact, to an unsuspecting listener, A Place To Bury Strangers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 newest album, Exploding Head might as well be the most badass thing they have ever heard. That is because it is.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/aptbs\">aptbs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/explodinghead\">explodinghead<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/review\">review<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.exclaim.ca\/musicreviews\/latestsub.aspx?csid1=115&amp;csid2=870&amp;fid1=41598\">Loom &#8211; Selva Molhada<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Songs like &#8220;In Your Heart&#8221; and &#8220;Keep Slipping Away&#8221; skilfully weave screeching feedback, crusty guitar and engaging melodies in a way that still sounds heady a quarter-century after Psychocandy blew minds.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/aptbs\">aptbs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/explodinghead\">explodinghead<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/review\">review<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/radioflyerreview.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/album-place-to-bury-strangers-exploding.html\">Radio Flyer Review: Album: A Place to Bury Strangers &#8211; Exploding Head<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">There isn&#8217;t a bad track on Exploding Head. It&#8217;s a solid, accomplished album with no filler and few misteps.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/aptbs\">aptbs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/review\">review<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/explodinghead\">explodinghead<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thephoenix.com\/Boston\/Music\/90819-Place-To-Bury-Strangers-Exploding-Head-2009\/\">The Phoenix &gt; CD Reviews &gt; A Place To Bury Strangers | Exploding Head<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Exploding Head is less an interpretation of a forgotten sound than a restoration of an abandoned mission.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/aptbs\">aptbs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/explodinghead\">explodinghead<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/review\">review<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xlr8r.com\/reviews\/place-bury-strangers\/exploding-head\">Exploding Head | XLR8R<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s scathing guitars.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/aptbs\">aptbs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/explodinghead\">explodinghead<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/review\">review<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/treblezine.com\/reviews\/3291-A_Place_to_Bury_Strangers_Exploding_Head.html\">Treble : Album Review : A Place to Bury Strangers &#8211; Exploding Head<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">That A Place To Bury Strangers would allow their sound to evolve in a more accessible direction isn&#8217;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.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/aptbs\">aptbs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/review\">review<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/explodinghead\">explodinghead<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.behindthehype.com\/music-reviews\/indie-rock-review\/a-place-to-bury-strangers-just-made-my-head-explode\/\">A Place to Bury Strangers Just Made My Head Explode | Movie Reviews | Music Reviews | Behind the Hype<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">A Place to Bury Strangers answers to these, with what just might be the best Post-Punk Revival record since Interpol\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s debut.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/aptbs\">aptbs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/review\">review<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/explodinghead\">explodinghead<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/13500-exploding-head\/\">Pitchfork: Album Reviews: A Place to Bury Strangers: Exploding Head<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;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).&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/aptbs\">aptbs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/review\">review<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/explodinghead\">explodinghead<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the first full week of October and Exploding Head was officially released on the 6th. 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