You really have to hand it to Jukebox, they consistently manage to book some stunning bands you wouldn’t get an opportunity to see anywhere else and A Place To Bury Strangers are certainly no exception.
With the Brooklyn, NYC band’s recently released second album ‘Exploding Head’ (out on Mute records now) still very much box fresh and confidently swaggering all over the blandness of record industry ‘Best of..’ pre-Christmas releases The Other Rooms is swamped in a heady concoction of lacerating guitar and intoxicating beats as they tear through a set list bursting with intrigue and imagination.
The unassuming greatness of their self-titled debut album - a collection of chaotic demos and EP recordings with brilliant songs like ‘To Fix The Gash In Your Head’ and ‘She Dies’ evoke the JAMC wall of sound and undulating Cure bass lines which brought wider renown and the deserved moniker ‘loudest band’ you’re likely to see. So it’s with unbridled anticipation that I’m here waiting to be literally blown away – late on Friday 13th (appropriately enough) when, sad to admit, I’d usually be tucked up under a duvet welcoming the land of nod.
It’s all in the delivery and jeez do they deliver? The scene stealing tonight definitely comes from ‘In Your Heart’, ‘Deadbeat’ and ‘Ego Death, all from the latest album but it’s genuinely impossible to isolate a few songs though from what is the most pulsating, squealing, invigorating performance Newcastle is likely to witness for a long time to come.
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