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• A Place To Bury Strangers Pics | Line Out | The Stranger’s Music Blog | The Stranger | Seattle’s Only Newspaper
  “I left last night’s show thinking that A Place to Bury Strangers is a very good young band” (tags: aptbs)
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  “Live- APTBS are unlike anything else right now- it’s a jaw-quaking, thirst-quenching- and almost pornographic sensory assault.” (tags: aptbs)
• The Portland Mercury | End Hits: The Mercury Music
  “But if I give it a moment, and sift through the effects pedals and blurry white noise, I find melodies and emotions as potent as those of the Jesus & Mary Chain (an easy reference point).” (tags: aptbs)
• UCSD Guardian Online
  “Accompanying them is Brooklyn power-trio A Place to Bury Strangers, a gothic ’80s throwback to former dark-pop giants New Order that incorporates a 21st century noise sheen over its pleasantly derivative sound.” (tags: aptbs)
• Junkmedia: A Place To Bury Strangers | A Place To Bury Strangers : A Place To Bury Strangers
  “A Place to Bury Strangers’s debut manages to offer a worthwhile if not totally fresh take on noisy psych-rock”(tags: aptbs)
• amber - APTBS…wow. Just that. Wow.
  “It’s not that they were polished and slick in performance; actually they were the exact opposite…rough and loud and perfect because of it.” (tags: aptbs)

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• Seattlest: Get Out Tuesday: A Place to Bury Strangers @ Chop Suey
  So perhaps it’s more accurate to describe APtBS as “the effects-pedaliest band in New York” or “the My Bloody Valentiney-est band in New York.” Because both of those claims are true, without a doubt. (tags: aptbs)
• feedback loop on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
  Guitarist from “a place to bury strangers” playing his guitar upside down just before he throws it down and rips off the strings. (tags: aptbs)
• experimental : Kids And Pets Blog and Dance Party Machine
  A band so drenched in reverb, delay and feedback can illicit feelings using just mighty sound waves. Reminding us that music is so much more than just listening. (tags: aptbs)

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  A Place to Bury Strangers have released the best shoegaze album of the year, hands down. … Oliver Ackermann, JSpace, and Jono MOFO have laid down some of the most aggressive and nihilistic music the genre has seen.   (tags: aptbs)

A Place to Bury Strangers

• i_heartdynamics: “Dynamism’s Presence Turns Optimism’s
  On my way out of town last weekend, I dropped in to see A Place To Bury Strangers. It was awesome. … Vocals were up front, I could hear what Ackerman was saying pretty clearly - sounded good.  (tags: aptbs)
• Austinist: Austinist Album Reviews: Skywave and Sons
  A) some of these tunes could go toe to toe with most of what came out of the original shoegaze era, let alone the current blog-rock status quo, B) bandleader Oliver Ackerman has been playing since 1995, and C) what are you doing with your life, exactly? (tags: aptbs)
• Four musical acts to catch this week | Straight.com
  If you’re like us, you want your rock ’n’ roll to come on like a 747 taking off, all whooshing distortion and wind-tunnel ambiance. If that sounds good to you, we urge you to be at Richard’s on Richards on Monday  (tags: aptbs)
• A Place to Bury Strangers: Interview
  Long interview of Oliver. the last lines: “For a while I would feel like I was letting my parents down by not doing something a little more substantial, but they’ve always given me so much support. I think it’s okay.” (tags: aptbs)

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• The Weekly Wire: A Place to Bury Strangers (Seattle Weekly)
  The critical popularity of Brooklyn trio A Place to Bury Strangers is happily perplexing—since when did unvarnished aggression like “I want to beat you in/I’ll make you feel my sorrow” become KEXP-approved?  (tags: aptbs seattle)

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  They fell off our radar for a second but bounced back in 2007, with a new, critically-acclaimed self-titled album. (tags: aptbs)
• - Band offers nirvana through volume
  As anarchic as their music may sound, Ackermann and cohorts (drummer JSpace and bassist Jono MOFO) exercise a considerable amount of oversight with it. Ackermann calls what they do “controlled chaos.” (tags: aptbs)
• Zeroskilz - Beauty: In Various Acts and Forms
  APTBS bill themselves as a loud band; not one that is loud for the sake of being loud, but one that believes the volume accentuates the music they play.. I’ve heard louder bands, but I’ve not heard one that uses all that noise .. as well as this band does (tags: aptbs)
• OngakuBaka: Skywave - Synthstatic
  Skywave’s sound is a little bit more melodic than A Place to Bury Strangers, but still incorporates huge walls of noise and feedback, and has that feeling of a shoegaze band smashing you over the head with a hammer. (tags: aptbs skywave)

• Pop Candy - Monthly Archives - USATODAY.com
  I went to high school with Oliver Ackermann, front man for A Place to Bury Strangers. Back in the ’90s, Ollie made me some mighty fine mix tapes (heavy on the Lou Reed) and took me to see Screaming Trees on my 16th birthday.  (tags: aptbs)
• The week in music — chicagotribune.com
  “Here’s a tip for any artist considering staking his or her claim to distortion: Don’t try to out-fuzz Oliver Ackermann. “  (tags: aptbs)
• San Francisco - Noise Pop 2008: Holy Fuck, A Place to Bury Strangers, White Denim, Veil Veil Vanish - Events Search
  ” New York–based trio A Place to Bury Strangers invites listeners into a brambly maze of pedal-mangled frequencies for a game of hide-and-go-shriek.”  (tags: aptbs)