The Walrus - Music With Big Fuckin' Teeth!

10/07/2007

A Place to Bury Strangers will Kick your head in

For those not familiar with the genre often referred to as "shoegaze," here is a quick crash-course. It was started in the mid 80's in the UK, where bands like My Bloody Valentine, Ride, and Chapterhouse mixed lush vocals with loopy and sometimes painfully loud layered guitars. The obsession they had with staring down at the effects pedals by their shoes, led to the nickname "shoegazers."

After the 90's ended the genre began to take somewhat of a backseat within indie music. However, recently there has been a major resurgence thanks to such bands as Brooklyn's ethereal Asobi Seksu and Norway's explosive Serena Maneesh.

The noisy New York band A Place to Bury Strangers follows in the "foot" steps of those bands and adds a dose of Ministry inspired industrial noise. Limited to around 500 copies, their debut, self-titled album is a brash outburst of feedback and melancholy. The Jesus and Mary Chain-inspired song "To Fix the Gash In Your Head," is brutal and unrelenting with tons of distortion, sorrowful lyrics, and hypnotic drum-machine beats. Have a go at it below, and turn it up real loud so that your ears will ring for days.

Buy their album at Killer Pimp Records.