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A Place to Bury Strangers
+ special guests: Japandroids
'The pleasure pain threshold has rarely been more blurred”– NME
'You'll want your eardrums to get the shit kicked out of them at full force' - Pitchfork
Whelan's November 9th
Tickets from WAV Box-Office (Lo-Call 1890 200 078), City Discs, www.tickets.ie, Ticketmaster outlets nationwide
Mute's newest signing A Place To Bury Strangers announce a brand new album, Exploding Head, out on 5th October 2009.
Exploding Head is A Place To Bury Strangers' (Oliver Ackermann - vocals / guitar, Jono MOFO - bass and Jay Space - drums) second album release, the follow up to their eponymous debut.
Exploding Head is 43 mesmerizing minutes of pain as pleasure. You'll be checking the levels on your living room stereo from the moment 'It Is Nothing' pulls everyone in earshot through a vortex of groove-locked rhythms and back-spun power chords.
You'll be sucked in and blown away by the paranoid android pop of the album's first single 'In Your Heart,' the gorgeous gate-crashing melodies of 'Keep Slipping Away,' the Chinese water torture chords of 'Lost Feeling,' the sputtering percussion of 'Everything Always Goes Wrong,' the apocalypse now effects of 'Ego Death,' the sinewy, slightly sinister overtones of the title track, and the firework finale flare-ups of 'I Lived My Life To Stand in the Shadow of Your Heart.' This collection makes up the band's most arousing recording to date.
During the Exploding Head recording process engineer Andy Smith (Paul Simon, David Bowie) took the band to 'a whole other level' says Ackermann. 'I love the interplay and contrasts between something that's pretty and something that's scary,' he explains. 'Taking listeners to different places—even in one song—is so important, whether it makes them cry or pissed off. If you listen closely, some of the riffs on this record are actually like Ramones songs or '60s bubblegum pop.'
The new album was recorded at Death By Audio, the rehearsal/recording/living space that Ackermann helped build and the headquarters of Ackermann's Death By Audio company - a customised guitar pedal manufacturer that counts U2, TV on the Radio and My Bloody Valentine as customers.
Their debut release earned them a 'Best New Music' distinction and enduring support from Pitchfork, and they have toured with the likes of Nine Inch Nails, MGMT, Holy F**k, the Dandy Warhols and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.
A Place To Bury Strangers recently played Coachella and NYC's Siren festivals and will return to Europe in July for a series of festivals dates that include 1234 Festival, Reading, Leeds, Pukkelpop and an appearance at ATP in December.
http://www.myspace.com/aplacetoburystrangers
http://www.aplacetoburystrangers.com/
Japandroids
Japandroids was formed in 2006, and comprises Brian King on guitar and David Prowse on drums. The two met at the University of Victoria, where King studied science and Prowse anthropology.They originally intended to find a third member to act as lead vocalist, but later decided to forgo having a specific lead singer and simply share vocal duties. The band self-released two limited edition EPs, 2007's All Lies and 2008's Lullaby Death Jams, prior to signing with independent Canadian label Unfamiliar Records in January of 2009. Their debut LP, Post-Nothing was released mid-2009. They were subsequently signed to Polyvinyl in June of 2009. Japandroids was featured as the X3 Artist of the month by Aux.tv, CBC Radio 3 and Exclaim! Magazine for May 2009.
http://japandroids.com
+ special guests: Japandroids
'The pleasure pain threshold has rarely been more blurred”– NME
'You'll want your eardrums to get the shit kicked out of them at full force' - Pitchfork
Whelan's November 9th
Tickets from WAV Box-Office (Lo-Call 1890 200 078), City Discs, www.tickets.ie, Ticketmaster outlets nationwide
Mute's newest signing A Place To Bury Strangers announce a brand new album, Exploding Head, out on 5th October 2009.
Exploding Head is A Place To Bury Strangers' (Oliver Ackermann - vocals / guitar, Jono MOFO - bass and Jay Space - drums) second album release, the follow up to their eponymous debut.
Exploding Head is 43 mesmerizing minutes of pain as pleasure. You'll be checking the levels on your living room stereo from the moment 'It Is Nothing' pulls everyone in earshot through a vortex of groove-locked rhythms and back-spun power chords.
You'll be sucked in and blown away by the paranoid android pop of the album's first single 'In Your Heart,' the gorgeous gate-crashing melodies of 'Keep Slipping Away,' the Chinese water torture chords of 'Lost Feeling,' the sputtering percussion of 'Everything Always Goes Wrong,' the apocalypse now effects of 'Ego Death,' the sinewy, slightly sinister overtones of the title track, and the firework finale flare-ups of 'I Lived My Life To Stand in the Shadow of Your Heart.' This collection makes up the band's most arousing recording to date.
During the Exploding Head recording process engineer Andy Smith (Paul Simon, David Bowie) took the band to 'a whole other level' says Ackermann. 'I love the interplay and contrasts between something that's pretty and something that's scary,' he explains. 'Taking listeners to different places—even in one song—is so important, whether it makes them cry or pissed off. If you listen closely, some of the riffs on this record are actually like Ramones songs or '60s bubblegum pop.'
The new album was recorded at Death By Audio, the rehearsal/recording/living space that Ackermann helped build and the headquarters of Ackermann's Death By Audio company - a customised guitar pedal manufacturer that counts U2, TV on the Radio and My Bloody Valentine as customers.
Their debut release earned them a 'Best New Music' distinction and enduring support from Pitchfork, and they have toured with the likes of Nine Inch Nails, MGMT, Holy F**k, the Dandy Warhols and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.
A Place To Bury Strangers recently played Coachella and NYC's Siren festivals and will return to Europe in July for a series of festivals dates that include 1234 Festival, Reading, Leeds, Pukkelpop and an appearance at ATP in December.
http://www.myspace.com/aplacetoburystrangers
http://www.aplacetoburystrangers.com/
Japandroids
Japandroids was formed in 2006, and comprises Brian King on guitar and David Prowse on drums. The two met at the University of Victoria, where King studied science and Prowse anthropology.They originally intended to find a third member to act as lead vocalist, but later decided to forgo having a specific lead singer and simply share vocal duties. The band self-released two limited edition EPs, 2007's All Lies and 2008's Lullaby Death Jams, prior to signing with independent Canadian label Unfamiliar Records in January of 2009. Their debut LP, Post-Nothing was released mid-2009. They were subsequently signed to Polyvinyl in June of 2009. Japandroids was featured as the X3 Artist of the month by Aux.tv, CBC Radio 3 and Exclaim! Magazine for May 2009.
http://japandroids.com
