Oliver Ackermann of A Place to Bury Strangers gets ready to pull a Pete Townshend.
[Photos/video by Andrew Parks]
The Artist: Mute’s latest bid at revisiting the noise rock/shoegaze pop bliss of My Bloody Valentine; one that makes M83 look a bit tame in comparison (i.e. more emo than Dashboard Confessional, circa “Screaming Infidelities”).
Their Latest Release: “Missing You” 7-inch (Rocket Girl, 2009)
The Set in a Few Sentences: One has to wonder what goes through Oliver Ackermann’s head when he leads A Place to Bury Strangers down such scorched earth opuses as “I Know I’ll See You” and the rather splendid new song “Deadbeat.” (The fan favorite will finally see an official release this fall, as the Brooklyn band readies their second full-length record.) As you’ll see in the photos below, the frontman’s temper tantrum tendencies weren’t scaled back at Siren. If anything, they were taken to new extremes.
The only problem? APTBS is a band you have to see at night, flanked by epileptic strobe lights and an overloaded sound system. Seeing them in the early evening—especially when they chose to focus on flourishes of feedback and extended, pedal-stomping jams—seems just plain wrong.
And a Letter Grade: B+
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