I've reviewed A Place to Bury Strangers twice before but both times have been brief and comments about them on the whole rather than the specific album I think. So I felt that this was as good a place as any to give A Place to Bury Strangers a sort of proper review if only because this is that type of album that makes me want to give it a proper review. (I could say that they've grown or evolved since I started listening to them but I'm not going to get into something that cliche)
With fuzzy guitars APTBS lands somewhere between garage and psychedelic rock n roll. They remind me a lot of The Doors at times, yet on a song like "Deeper" they can get even darker and bring out a Marilyn Manson influence. As other songs can have the static trembling in the guitar notes, "Deeper" also breaks down into sheer pandamonium by the end.
On a song such as "I'm so Clean" the Priests influence definitely comes out. I also really like "We've Come So Far" if only because the way that the chorus is broken up into "I feel / right now / we've come / so far". It' just another demonstration of how A Place to Bury Strangers manages to walk that fine line between commercial appeal and not.
Whether you listen to something on the modern rock radio charts or "college radio" (which seems to take on its own genre) or even if you're like me and are all over the place with what you happen to listen to musically (and how) then I still think there is something within these songs you can come to appreciate.
Now the question is whether or not this is the first time that I've been able to write such a review about this music simply because it is the first time that I've heard it become this good. Either way, this could be one of my favorite albums not just of 2015 but of all time.
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