A Place To Bury Strangers Unveil New Single/Video,
New Album, Synthesizer, Out This Friday Via Dedstrange
On Tour Now
Photo credit: Ebru Yildiz
“...you’re left feeling like you’re dismounting the wildest roller coaster ride of your life—slightly disoriented but rocked to your core." — Paste
A Place To Bury Strangers release the new single/video, “Fear Of Transformation,” from their forthcoming album, Synthesizer, to be released digitally October 4th and on vinyl October 25th via Dedstrange. Following lead singles “Disgust,” “You Got Me,” and “Bad Idea,” “Fear Of Transformation” is a snarling, gothic techno-punk track that feels like getting body slammed by a wave out at sea. The track delves into the struggle of overcoming internal barriers. As frontman Oliver Ackermann explains, "Sometimes fear builds up and pins you in a cage. A conversation occurs in my head where I have to convince myself to just fucking do something to break out of it." “Fear Of Transformation” embodies that internal dialogue, capturing the battle between the compulsion to avoid fear and the push to confront it. The song is a raw, intense conversation with the devil within.
The accompanying video was created by Chad Crawford Kinkle, director of Dementor and Jugface. A teenage boy sneaks out from his parent's house to go to his first Furry party, but he has a secret. He's actually a werewolf.
Synthesizer is the title of A Place to Bury Strangers' seventh album. It is also a physical entity, a synthesizer made specifically for you to own, too, if you buy the record on vinyl. You can watch Ackermann demonstrate how to play the circuit board and functional synth album cover here. In an era of making music where so little is DIY and so much is left up to AI, to never setting foot in a practice room or a home studio, making something that feels deliberately chaotic, messy, and human, is entirely the point. Synthesizer very much feels like a record of reinvention. And of course, to ever so slightly reinvent one’s sound, one must also build a new instrument, thus again the synth in question. The resulting record is one that is romantic, colorful, loud as hell, wild, and fucked up just like the instrument itself.
A Place To Bury Strangers Tour Dates:
Thu. Oct. 3 - Berlin, DE @ Berlin Metropol [Record Release Show] %
Fri. Oct. 4 - Copenhagen, DK @ Loppen %
Sat. Oct. 5 - Oslo, NO @ Goldie %
Sun. Oct. 6 - Gothenburg, SE @ Fangelset %
Mon. Oct. 7 - Stockholm, SE @ Slaktkyrkan %
Wed. Oct 9 - Wroclaw, PL @ Lacznik %
Thu. Oct. 10 - Warsaw, PL @ Hybrydy %
Fri. Oct. 11 - Poznan, PL @ 2progi %
Sat. Oct. 12 - Bmo, CZ @ Kabinet Muz %
Sun. Oct 13 - Jena, DE KuBa Jena %
Fri. Oct. 25 - Washington, DC @ Black Cat &
Sat. Oct. 26 - Raleigh, NC @ Kings &
Sun. Oct. 27 - Asheville, NC @ Grey Eagle &
Mon. Oct. 28 - Atlanta, GA @ The Earl &
Wed. Oct. 30 - Houston, TX @ White Oak &
Thu. Oct. 31 - Austin, TX @ Levitation &
Sat. Nov. 2 - Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar #
Sun. Nov. 3 - Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom #
Mon. Nov. 4 - San Francisco, CA @ GAMH Psyched Fest #
Thu. Nov. 7 - Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios #
Fr. Nov. 8 - Seattle, WA @ Freakout Festival ^
Sat. Nov. 9 - Vancouver, BC @ The Pearl
% w/ Stella Rose
& w/ YHWH Nailgun
# w/ Pop Music Fever Dream
^ w/ The Black Angels, Martin Rev, The Black Lips & Shabazz Palaces
Synthesizer Album Artwork
A Place To Bury Strangers Online
