★★★★★
The whirlwind that is A Place To Bury Strangers' core sound -- the mystifying, screeching guitars; the blown-out rhythm section; the cavernous vocal treatments -- create a sense of space and violence that is larger than what seems possible. Steely timbres and brilliant colors of noise fill the air. Enigmatic blasts of processed sound assert a potential for building unconventional emotional experiences, the kind that feel visceral, restorative, invigorating...
- www.tinymixtapes.com
2015-03-05
★★★★★
A Place to Bury Strangers, the Brooklyn noise-rock trio, have shot to the top of my list of bands to see live. Just check out this picture of frontman and guitarist Oliver Ackermann swinging his guitar by its strings. I thought I had seen it all as far as destructive rock star moves, but I've never seen that. Dude is a techie and handy enough to fix up his own guitars when he inevitably fucks them up at their gigs...
- www.punknews.org
2015-03-06
★★★★★
Cannibal Ox: Blade Of The Ronin
Cannibal Ox are one of those Salinger-grade acts who followed up an instant classic full-length with a silence long enough to seem like a breakup and rustling with just enough rumors to keep hope flickering. During that late-'90s to early-'00s moment when "underground rap" had enough of a shadowy presence in on both sides of the now-defunct indie-mainstream aisle to seem like a cohesive genre, the NYC duo's sole LP, 2001's The Cold Vein, defined an era, a sound,...
- prettymuchamazing.com
2015-03-31
★★★★★
A Place To Bury Strangers is a band with a reputation. A mythology has started to follow the Brooklyn trio: the custom-built pedals, the dizzyingly loud live show, the obvious late 80s/early 90s reference points. The opening tracks of their fourth full length, Transfixiation, however, do not appear to fit with these preconceived impressions...
- thequietus.com
2015-02-27
★★★★★
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Notorious noise-niks A Place To Bury Strangers don't do cheerful. Happiness is simply not a setting on their monochrome pedalboard of doom. Transfixiation grumbles, squeals and hollers, forgoing craftsmanship of songwriting for total aural desolation...
- www.thefourohfive.com
2015-02-25
★★★★★
For all their noise, A Place to Bury Strangers have been evolving subtly over the years, delivering more smudgy nuances to their noise-rock with each album. This time, Oliver Ackermann and company move forward by taking the contrast between their deadpan and explosive moments to extremes; if their last album, Worship, was a sleek race car, then Transfixiation is where they crash it just to watch it burn...
- www.allmusic.com
2015-02-26
★★★★★
Tweet Melodic Savagery On "Deeper," the mid-album wrecking ball on Transfixiation, the latest effort from A Place To Bury Strangers, lead singer Oliver Ackermann sings, "I gotta get some teeth." If the music on this album is all bark and no bite, hate to hear what the bite sounds like. This is deadly, apocalyptic, ominous music. It is grating in a Dirty Beaches kind of way, that is, in a lo-fi, subversive, melodic way...
- www.mxdwn.com
2015-02-18
★★★★★
Forging a name as one of the loudest, and most explosive bands of recent years, A Place To Bury Strangers have enjoyed significant success since their excellent self-titled debut back in 2007, but have always shown the desire to eclipse their earlier efforts. Four records down the line however, and their brand of brooding, psychedelic noise-rock seems to be headed in a different, not especially welcome direction...
- state.ie
2015-02-18
★★★★★
The emotions at play as A Place To Bury Strangers launch into Transfixiation--guilt, anger and regret--stand as a signpost, pointing straight down the road their fourth album takes.
Guitarist/singer Oliver Ackermann is at his most direct on the opening "Supermaster" and either by design or by chance, that first impression of unsettled and unquiet emotions carries through the other 10 songs, culminating in the brutally heavy and distorted "I Will Die...
- www.pastemagazine.com
2015-02-18
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