A Place to Bury Strangers have followed up their critically acclaimed new album from last week with a new music video, accompanying their single “My Head is Bleeding“. The album, titled See Through You, came out February 4th and has received a run of positive reviews. mxdwn magazine calls it “an exciting and powerful record”, and BrooklynVegan argues that “Oliver Ackermann reinvents his noise-psych band as a lean, mean and still strange machine on the band’s excellent sixth album.“
Ackermann describes the new single as being “about internally begging to a God when you might not necessarily believe in one. It’s that moment where there’s just a sliver of hope that anything in your head might connect you with the Universe and actually make a change.“
Following on in their series of grizzly horror-themed music videos, Travis Stevens is the latest pick, known for such features as Jakob’s Wife and Girl on the Third Floor. And they obviously made the right pick. Stevens was dedicated to the task of putting the unique sounds of APTBS to video, stating that “The entire album rips but there’s a plea to transform suffering into joy in this song that I really sparked to. In order to emulate the raw unpredictability of an APTBS performance, I tried to create a similar magical combination of flesh, emotion, intuition and technology.“
Other horror directors the band have used over the previous months include Chad Crawford Kinkle for the single “I’m Hurt“, as well as Keith Thomas for the single “I Disappear (When You’re Near)“. The videos typically depict some macabre setting, such as two women fighting to the death in the latter. The band’s press release has a fittingly gory description of their latest video, citing that “flesh and blood commingle in a pileup of heaving, mysterious biomass as a mechanical womb gives birth to an oily, ectoplasmic form”.
If you want to purchase or stream the new album, you can look at this link here. As for seeing them live, a new tour of theirs kicked off just yesterday down in Warsaw, and will take them all over America and Europe, visiting the likes of Seattle, Vancouver, Philadelphia and plenty more. As for their European fans, Budapest, Munich and Zurich are just some of the places they’ll be getting to soon enough. The full list of tour dates can be seen at their website here. They have only one UK venture planned as of now, coming to London’s Lafayette on April 2nd.
