Disgust by A Place To Bury Strangers

The lead track, Disgust, from A Place to Bury Strangers, comes ahead of their seventh album, Synthesizer, which will be available via Dedstrange on October 4th, 2024. In addition to serving as the title of the new record, Synthesizer also relates to a synth that was specially created for this project. The idea is carried through into the presentation of the vinyl edition, which comes with a circuit board that fans can assemble into their own instrument.

“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 writing sessions for Synthesizer began in the band's Queens studio shortly after the release of 2022’s See Through You. The band re-formed with a new lineup, still led by Ackermann, and now included friends John and Sandra Fedowitz. This new iteration of the band proved to be inspiring for Ackermann who comments: “It felt like a fresh new thing. I wanted to write songs everyone was excited about playing.”

The music video for the song was shot by Joe Wakeman and directed by Ben Hozie of BODEGA. In order to achieve a certain style of cine-cubism where the band members can be seen from multiple angles at once in the same frame, the band is placed next to and inside distorted images on TVs. “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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