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New York' A Place to Bury Strangers, consisting of vocalist and guitarist
Oliver Ackermann, bassist Jono Mofo and drummer Jay Space, debuted with
A Place To Bury Strangers (Killer Pimp, 2007).
The songs are actually all over the map.
The loud and abrasive style for which they became famous is
represented by the
neurotic garage-rock of Missing You, infected by the alien viruses of
Neu
and
Suicide
while the singer indulges in the
morbid psychedelia of Pink Floyd on the
way to a collective soaring and ear-splitting refrain;
by Don't Think Lover, that weds
the guitar inferno of the Stooges and
crystalline pop vocals;
by the festival of looped hard-rock riffs and trancey litanies of
Breathe; by the
pounding and distorted My Weakness.
The melodic shoegazing maelstrom She Dies was less successful in its
attempt to capture the magic of
My Bloody Valentine.
There are other brilliant ideas in completely different directions, such as
the fusion of early Pink Floyd and dance-punk in Another Step Away
or the dark disco-music of the 1980s plagiarized in I Know I'll See You.
The closing pensive Ocean succeeds in balancing poppy and noisy
instincts within an existential framework reminiscent of dark-punk of the 1980s.
Exploding Head (Mute, 2009) matched the
retro-appeal of In Your Heart (echoes of disco-punk) and Keep Slipping Away (echoes of dark-punk)
with the sadistic appeal of
the propulsive and bluesy It Is Nothing, of the
manic sideral pounding Deadbeat with blasts of ferocious distortions
(sort of Gun Club meet
My Bloody Valentine),
of the macabre Stooges-ian shuffle
in overdrive Ego Death,
and of the tribal beat and maximum distortion of Lost Feeling.
The project might be moving towards the mainstream
(as demonstrated by the catchy Everything Always Goes Wrong and by
the danceable Exploding Head),
but retains most of its passion
and originality.
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(Translation by/ Tradotto da Alessio Morrone)
La band
newyorkese degli A Place To Bury Strangers, consistenti del chitarrista e
vocalist Oliver Ackermann, del bassista Jono Mofo e del batterista Jay Space,
debuttarono con l’album A Place To Bury
Strangers (Killer Pimp, 2007). Le canzoni sono effettivamente
dappertutto. Lo stile rumoroso ed abrasivo per il quale divennero famosi è
rappresentato del nevrotico garage-rock di Missing
You, infettato dai virus alieni di Neu e Suicide mentre il cantante si abbandona alla
morbida psichedelia dei Pink Floyd sulla strada di un
ritornello sublime e assordante. Si succedono poi Don't Think Lover, che
sposa l’inferno chitarristico degli Stooges e il canto pop
cristallino, il festival di riff hard-rock ciclici e le litanie trance di Breathe, e la martellante e distorta My Weakness. Il vortice melodico shoegaze She Dies
riesce meno nel tentativo di catturare la magia dei My Bloody Valentine. Ci sono altre
idee brillanti in direzioni completamente diverse, come nella fusione dei
primi Pink Floyd ed il dance-punk in Another Step Away o la dark disco-music
degli anni ‘80 palgiati in I Know I'll See You. La chiusura malinconica Ocean riesce nel bilanciare
istinti pop e noise in un contesto esistenziale reminiscente del dark-punk
degli anni ’80.
Exploding Head (Mute, 2009) abbina il
fascino retrò di In Your Heart (eco di disco-punk) e Keep
Slipping Away (eco di dark-punk) con il sadico appeal della
propulsive e blueseggiante It Is Nothing, del bombardamento siderale maniaco Deadbeat con raffiche di feroci
distorsioni (una sorta di Gun
Club che incontrano i My Bloody Valentine), del
macabro miscuglio Stooges-iano
in overdrive Ego Death, e del ritmo tribale e massima distorsione di Lost Feeling. Il
progetto potrebbe muovere verso il mainstream (come dimostra l’orecchiabile Everything
Always Goes Wrong e la ballabile Exploding Head), ma conserva di più la sua passione ed
originalità.
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