A Place to Bury Strangers (APTBS) Hologram
A Place to Bury Strangers APTBS Hologram was released on July 16th 2021. I would highly recommend buying it from the source however the vinyl is totally sold out as far as I can tell.
A Place to Bury Strangers (APTBS) Hologram
A Place to Bury Strangers APTBS Hologram is a ripping dirty noisey rock album. The grinding fuzz tones slapping echo and driven sound embraces their past while evolving into the future. Wild textured distortion on the instruments is matched with a desire for noise and over the top effects. The vocals are echoing and have a vintage compressed feel and settle in the foreground.
Hologram takes contemporary rock sounds from the psych scene and spins it with uniqe tones and effects. the songs border on catchy with their vocal lines however the overall appraoch to the insruments is innovative. They are able to capture a sound that embraces each decade of music with 80s 90s and contemporary rock music.
“In My Hive” takes the guitars and manipulates the sounds waves to an extreme launching them into an otherworldly tone that is warm, smooth yet spiraling out of control. This innovative use of effects is to be expected as the band leader oliver is the foudners of Death by Audio Effects pedals, a company that makes a variety of outrageous effects that are not for the faint of heart.
This album is one of my favorites from the band. The mix and balance of their distortion and effects is highly listenable despite going over the edge and out of the box. There is a warmth to the tones and high quality to the overall production. The band is not reaching for pristine clear sound but instead embraces compressed fuzzy and reverberating tones that have led some to define them as shoegaze. For my money shoegaze is just one aspect of their sound the band integrates in 80s new wave, 90 grunge and contemporary psychedelic and experimental rock.
There is an element of ballad-like 80s music on this album that fits neatly into their sound. This vocal forward music helps bring the compositions together in a way that allows the instrumentation to explore their spun-out fantasies of a new sound. This band is very good and they tend to stay on the edges of musical awareness but this album seems to point the group in a new direction that could easily generate much more fanfare beyond their cult of followers.
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Very informative!!! Thanks my friend, can’t wait wait until the next one!!! Much love from dmtworld.net!!!