[DID NOT ATTEND: May 9, 2022] A Place to Bury Strangers / Lunacy / Glove
A Place to Bury Strangers is one of those bands that I have heard about for years whose music I had never heard. And like The World is a Beautiful Place and I am No Longer Afraid to Die, they have a long name that is rather evocative but which implies a heaviness that may or may not be there.
I put this show on my “check out” list mostly because I was curious as to what this band actually sounded like.
When I played their songs on Spotify I was taken aback by how much they sounded like The Church (at least on “Always Gonna Be the Same”). That’s their latest single (okay I’m writing this long after the concert happened).
Their other songs are a lot louder and darker, which means this Wikipedia entry makes sense
Commonly known by the initials APTBS, the band plays a heavy, atmospheric Wall of Sound–influenced blend of noise rock, shoegaze and space rock. The band is known for the loudness of their intense live shows. A Place to Bury Strangers are commonly referred to by music writers as the “loudest band in New York”, a reputation the band developed even before the release of their first album.
Fascinating.
Sometimes you can tell a lot about a band by their openers. The two openers for this show were darkwave and a kind of 80’s synth alt rock. I think I would have enjoyed this show about twenty years ago.
Glove is a retro synth band, in the vein of Depeche Mode or New Order. They’re from Tampa but look like they are straight out of the 80’s UK music scene.
Sounds kinda fun.
Lunacy is Pennsylvania’s industrial darkwave monk who plays Dark, dystopian vibes; deep electronic cuts that shake and rattle with power.
I suspect I know exactly what this show was like and there was very little movement in the audeince.
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