Worship

A Place To Bury Strangers are often lumped in with ‘noize bands’ like Health. Wrongly so. Their music aims to seduce rather than batter into submission and, on their second album, they come on like a super-heavy mix of Secret Machines, And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, Joy Division and Primal Scream’s Swastika Eyes. Opener ‘Alone’ is post-apocalpytic shoe-gaze, with swooping guitars, vocals piled up to the stratosphere and drums going off like proximity bombs. Later, ‘You Are The One’ surfs on a gothic disco beat, ‘Mind Control’ is a pedal to the floor rocker that practically leaves speed-burns on the inside of your brain. Yes, it goes on forever – but so did the last 40 minutes of Transformers 3. If you liked that, you’ll love this.