A Place To Bury Strangers - I Know I'll See You

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4...according to our Phil on Fri 17 Oct, 2008.

Someone wants A Place To Bury Strangers to be massive. What with them and Crystal Stilts doing the whole Mary Chain thing (possibly Glasvegas etc doing it on a big populist level) I'm wondering if this is gonna be a new scene. What is it gonna be called? Or does it already have a name and I've no idea cos I'm sat here in my own little world thinking of kittens and fish. Well writing a review of one of their records and not mentioning the Mary Chain is a bloody hard job and you can see I'm not the man for the job. 'I Know I'll See You' is on luminous orange and is on the Rocket Girl label who are also bringing the Killer Pimp release to the UK shortly.... Anyway this whiffs a bit of early New Order/ late Joy Division as well. It sounds old anyway and I kind of like it.

Double A-side (coloured vinyl, 500 orange, 500 blue) featuring a remix from The Clapp. It has been a whirlwind few months for the Brooklyn based trio A Place to Bury Strangers, whose next single, a double A-side of ‘I Know I’ll See You’, and its dance remix by The Clapp will be released on Rocket Girl Records on 20th October. This is a taster of November’s release of the band’s self-titled debut album featuring five bonus tracks. The band will return to Europe in November to support fellow Brooklynites MGMT.After wowing at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival early this year (where NME declared them one of their top ten bands of the festival), they found themselves England’s hottest ticket. Suddenly the “loudest band in NYC”, were the most wanted band in London, with features in Kerrang! and NME.Back home in the States, the band will spend the end of the summer supporting Nine Inch Nails and The Dandy Warhols across America, and so their creation of what seemed like a somewhat inaccessible aural attack of white noise has become the freshest sound on the circuit. A dark metallic ring of the gritty tin of guitars, I Know I’ll See You is a saw-soaked raw track, fusing Factory Records-esque mystery with addictive pulses of eardrum piercing austerity. Static-laden sonic qualities create sounds that evolve to sound like a slinky Werewolf attack of saturated distortion; hardly surprising given front man Oliver Ackermann’s sideline building hand-wired guitar pedals. LIVE SHOWS – Touring with MGMT (more dates to be announced) Thurs 27th Nov The Forum, London Fri 28th Nov Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London

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