A Place to Bury Strangers - 'Everyone's The Same'
A Place to Bury Strangers are back with a series of new rarities releases – you’re never going to get rarer than this for the sonic-noise rock outfit as their sonic wall of sound is more abrasive than you’ve ever heard them before.
How do you follow Synthesizer, one of 2024’s best albums? When you’re a band like A Place to Bury Strangers – you dip into the back catalogue. Lead single Everyone’s the Same sets the stage for what’s to come, pulls you in and keeps you there, raw nerve and chaos from the best band in the market of what they do – filtering through pieces of forgotten dreams and fragments.
It’s Oliver Ackerman’s personal archive of late-night recordings, B-sides, forgotten music compiled as the next big A Place to Bury Strangers release – and this is a teaser as to what’s to come from the full drop. And why not – it justifies a tour – with jagged interference on the edges, a burst of noise electricity pulsating through lead single Everyone’s the Same. It’s classic A Place to Bury Strangers and you’ve never been more in good hands.
Ackermann is restless, frantic, never staying in one place for too long. It’s a follow up to Transfixiation that was released a mere 27 days into Trump’s presidency – and Everyone’s the Same feels born out of that noise and chaos. It’s a delicate melody that feels punctuated by the bands’ signature feedback wall, with Ackermann weaving a space of “beauty and horror coexisting,” describing that “hell [is] leaking into something serene.” After all, why would it not be?
Fusing bass and vocals together Ackermann can move effortlessly to create a sonic wall of unrelenting, growing noise – this is the kind best experienced in small rooms, crowded spaces, sweating pits. It’s a single that feels designed to tap into political chaos and turmoil, and is sprawling, vast and uncomfortable in scope. It will get under your skin. But it is meant to get under your skin; creating an alien sense of feeling and nature.
Words by Miles Milton-Jefferies
