「甜蜜的耳膜摧毁者,兴趣是自制效果器。」这应该是A Place to Bury Strangers的名片,或许他们除了噪音之外的一切均是拷贝自JAMC,但只手几乎创立一个流派也够惊人。不过时至第三张专辑,再怎么威猛的力道招数也会变老消散,新作速度感止歇,就连瞪鞋风格都回溯至Skywave时期的味道,但在噪音的堆叠与开发上却依然具备同辈难以企及的高水准,同样工业化黑暗死亡的暗淡主题让太多太多都似曾相识,很容易发现唯一退步的就是旋律性。或许他们也已面临了该玩纯实验还是歌谣化的十字路口。
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Guitars as jet engines; guitars as haunted electronics; guitars as filling-melting white heat: A Place To Bury Strangers' 2012 album Worship is explosive, visceral, and dark. APTBS' DIY-braintrust of Death By Audio wizard Oliver Ackerman and bassist Dion Lunadon continue the evolution of songwriting that began with Onwards to the Wall, the band's 2011 EP. Now on Worship, they interweave threads of krautrock, dream-pop, and 80s goth without ever losing the edge that is quintessentially Strangers. Unhinged dissonance is artfully framed within a fiercely dynamic and assured melodic sensibility.