Disgust is the lead single from NYC's loudest band, A Place to Bury Strangers, heralding their seventh album, Synthesizer, set to release on October 4th, 2024, via Dedstrange. The album title, Synthesizer, not only provides the name for the new album but also represents a custom-made synth crafted specifically for this project. The concept extends to the vinyl edition's packaging, which includes a circuit board allowing fans to construct the instrument themselves.
“It’s pretty messed up, chaotic,” frontman Oliver Ackermann comments on the album, “But it feels really human.” The album's first track showcases a lot of rawness and is linked to the human factor in music production which is currently in decline, as AI is now responsible for a significant number of elements in popular music. APTBS firmly adheres to their DIY philosophy.
The raw guitar lines and outraged drumming of Disgust unleash a sonic attack, creating an explosion of sound which is indicative of the intense energy of an A Place to Bury Strangers song.
“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,” Ackermann explains. “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 comes together with a video directed by BODEGA’s Ben Hozie and filmed by Joe Wakeman. It depicts 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.”
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