Cover art for Missing You by A Place To Bury Strangers Description: CD on Rocketgirl
Format: CD single
Genre(s): Indie Rock
Label: Rocket Girl
Price:
£3.39
Availability: Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

4Rating: 4
...according to our on 02 April 2009.

A Place to Bury Strangers are being milked what with the album first coming out on Killer Pimp (cool) Then on Important (cool) and the Rocket Girl. Three different labels! Anyway there's more mileage to be had as 'Missing You' from the album is now out as a single. It's a good tune like but if you're interested I guess you've probably heard it already. There is however a demo version of the track that sounds good with it's slightly rawer edge. There are also remixes of 'To Fix The Gash In Your Head' by Peter Holmstrom and Clapp. The Clapp mix reminds me a bit of New Order.

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What their label says...

A Place to Bury Strangers  are releasing their new single, ‘Missing You’ on 6th April on Rocket Girl Records. The band’s new single is taken from their eponymous, critically acclaimed debut album, released late last year amidst a flurry of hair-raising live shows. To put the icing on the band’s cake (or in their case, the T-Rex on their flux capacitor), A Place to Bury Strangers are also coming back to the UK in April to delight and terrify their British fans further.

The trio have had a pretty astounding year. Starting by becoming the band to see at last year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) festival, they then toured with Dandy Warhols, and one of their childhood heroes, Nine Inch Nails. A tour with fellow Brooklynites MGMT made sure the Strangers’ album was top on every muso’s wish list. Suddenly the “loudest band in NYC”, were the most wanted band in the UK. Their epilepsy-inducing set is a completely unique experience of saw-soaked tracks with eardrum piercing austerity. Such static-laden tracks could easily get lost amidst the madness, but the band’s attention to the technical side of their performance makes sure that their razor-sharp precision shines though to create aural ferocity. Of course it’s useful that front man Oliver Ackermann’s sideline is building hand-wired guitar pedals, which have been bough by bands such as My Bloody Valentine and Wilco. Oliver (guitars, vocalist), shares the stage with Jono Mofo (bass) & Jay Space (drums). And boy are they noisy

Track listing:

7"

Missing You (demo)
To Fix The Gash (The Clapp remix)

CDEP

Missing you (radio edit)
Missing You (demo)
To Fix the gash (dandy warhol remix)
To Fix the gash (The clapp remix).