A Place To Bury Strangers Teaches You To Love Heated Surfaces!
A Place To Bury Strangers: Onwards To The Wall– I imagine Oliver Akermann, singer of A Place To Bury Strangers, loves heat. Akermann dreams of jumping on to oiled skillets, brimming woks and live brick ovens. This desire seems to have decreased though as it has become more commonplace for him. One day, he left the safety of these things. Out in the desert searching for coins, he stumbled upon a cave of thick viscous oil. He grew flush with new ideas! The places he would go with this malevolent Adonis! Then set out on a journey to blast apart his own limbs with this flammable liquid blanket.
Diving head first into the muck, at an unprecedented speed Akermann delivers his vivid manifesto. This record is written in a language where everyone is told to speak in chrome. The time clock is the bubbling furnace. This is a job that requires graveyard shifts and full body gear. It is a delicate balance, the walls are crumbling, and the oil must be drilled before collapse! This mine will go under and bury you.”Drill It Up” sums up the aim of this particular endeavor! The tunnels house scalding gears, grease fires are rampant! This record has a gargantuan Leviathan pulse! The monster has huge veins! Violent bloodletting will infect the populace with ease. An experience that can lose tiny momentum, but it is a brief moment. Well worth the stipend paid to families that fled realizing Akermann had moved into the mines just outside their windows. Get dismembered like it was the first time! 8/10
Onwards To The Wall comes out on Dead Oceans February 7th.