New-York based A Place To Bury Strangers announce their seventh album Synthesizer, out 4 October via Dedstrange, and release lead single, ‘Disgust’. Synthesizer is the title of the album, but it is also a physical entity, a synth made specifically for A Place to Bury Strangers’ seventh album. With the vinyl version of the album’s packaging, which is made up of a circuit board, fans can use this to build the instrument. Synthesizer is a record that celebrates sounds that are spontaneous and natural, the kind of music that can only come from collaboration and community. Indeed the band never set foot in a practice room or a home studio, and created something that feels deliberately chaotic, messy, and human.
‘Disgust’ is a sonic assault on the senses. Fueled by frustration and raw emotion, the track features guitar lines punctuated by furious banging, creating a cacophony of sound. With a high-pitched, piercing intro designed to challenge listeners, it’s an unapologetically bold statement.
Frontman Oliver Ackermann shares the following:
“‘Disgust’ is a song I wrote that was inspired by the way I used to perform ‘Got That Feeling,’ a song by my old band Skywave. There was a long riding open note on the bass that enabled me to play the whole part with my fist in the air. I wrote this song just on open strings so it could be played with just one hand: dumb and fun.”
The song is accompanied by a video directed by BODEGA’s Ben Hozie and filmed by Joe Wakeman, and frames the band next to and within distorted images on TVs to “achieve a certain style of cine-cubism where the band members can be seen from multiple angles at once in the same frame.” “This sense of dissociative texture is exactly what A Place to Bury Strangers music feels like to me,” Hozie says, “I was trying to create a visual accompaniment to the disorienting buzzy speed of the band’s grooves and bliss of their distorted overtones.”
The writing sessions for Synthesizer started in the band’s Queens studio, shortly after the release of 2022’s See Through You. The band re-formed with a new lineup, Ackermann still at the helm, now featuring friends John and Sandra Fedowitz. This new iteration of the band was inspiring for Ackermann: “It felt like a fresh new thing. I wanted to write songs everyone was excited about playing.”
A Place To Bury Strangers tour dates:
July
27 – Guimarães, PT @ Lagosto Festival
28 – Binic-Etables-sur-Me, FR @ Binic Festival
31 – Hamburg, DE @ Hafenklang
August
1 – Dresden, DE @ Chemiefabrik
2 – Beelen, DE @ Krach Am Bach
4 – Transylvania, RO @ Rockstadt Extreme Fest
5 – Budapest, HUN @ A38 $
6 – Bratislava, SK @ Pink Whale $
7 – Munich, DE @ Milla Club $
8- Aschaffenburg, DE @ Colos-Saal $
10- Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso $
September
21 – Groningen, NL @ Vicefest
23 – London, UK @ The Shacklewell Arms
24 – Wed 25/09/24 – London, UK @ No90 Live Hackney Wick
26 – Manchester, UK @ Deaf Institute %
27 – Dublin, IE @ The Grand Social %
28 – Belfast, IE @ Oh Yeah %
29 – Glasgow, UK @ Stereo %
30 – Bedford, UK @ Esquire %
October
3 – Berlin, DE @ Berlin Metropol [Record Release Show] %
4 – Copenhagen, DK @ Loppen %
5 – Oslo, NO @ Goldie %
6 – Gothenburg, SE @ Fangelset %
7 – Stockholm, SE @ Slaktkyrkan %
9 – Wroclaw, PL @ Lacznik %
10 – Warsaw, PL @ Hybrydy %
11 – Poznan, PL @ 2progi %
12 – Brno, CZ @ Kabinet Muz %
13- Jena, DE @ KuBa Jena %
25 – Washington, DC @ Black Cat &
26 – Raleigh, NC @ Kings &
27 – Asheville, NC @ Grey Eagle &
28 – Atlanta, GA @ The Earl &
30 – Houston, TX @ White Oak &
31 – Austin, TX @ Levitation &
November
2 – Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar #
3 – Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom #
4 – San Francisco, CA @ GAMH Psyched Fest #
7 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios #
8 – Seattle, WA @ Freakout Festival ^
9 – Vancouver, BC @ The Pearl
$ w/ Skelesys
% w/ Stella Rose
& w/ YHWH Nailgun
# w/ Pop Music Fever Dream
^ w/ The Black Angels, Martin Rev, The Black Lips & Shabazz Palaces
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