A Place To Bury Strangers – new single + video out now / new album ‘Synthesizer’ out Friday

A Place To Bury Strangers release the new single/video ‘Fear Of Transformation‘ from their forthcoming album, ‘Synthesizer’, to be released digitally on 4th October, and on vinyl on 25th October via Dedstrange.

Following lead singles ‘Disgust‘, ‘You Got Me‘ and ‘Bad Idea‘, “Fear Of Transformation” is a snarling, gothic techno-punk track that feels like getting body-slammed by a wave out at sea. The track delves into the struggle of overcoming internal barriers. As frontman Oliver Ackermann explains, “Sometimes fear builds up and pins you in a cage. A conversation occurs in my head where I have to convince myself to just fucking do something to break out of it.” “Fear Of Transformation” embodies that internal dialogue, capturing the battle between the compulsion to avoid fear and the push to confront it. The song is a raw, intense conversation with the devil within.   

Synthesizer is the title of A Place to Bury Strangers’ seventh album. It is also a physical entity, a synthesizer made specifically for you to own, too, if you buy the record on vinyl. You can watch Ackermann demonstrate how to play the circuit board and functional synth album cover here. In an era of making music where so little is DIY and so much is left up to AI, to never setting foot in a practice room or a home studio, making something that feels deliberately chaotic, messy, and human, is entirely the point. Synthesizer very much feels like a record of reinvention. And of course, to ever so slightly reinvent one’s sound, one must also build a new instrument, thus again the synth in question. The resulting record is one that is romantic, colourful, loud as hell, wild, and fucked up just like the instrument itself.

‘Synthesizer’ tracklist
1. Disgust
2. Don’t Be Sorry
3. Fear Of Transformation
4. Join The Crowd
5. Bad Idea
6. You Got Me
7. It’s Too Much
8. Plastic Future
9. Have You Ever Been In Love
10. Comfort Never Comes
PRE-ORDER ‘SYNTHESIZER’ HERE

A Place To Bury Strangers Disgust European Tour:

Thu 03/10/24 – Berlin Metropol [Record Release Show] – Berlin, Germany %
Fri 04/10/24 – Loppen – Copenhagen, Denmark %
Sat 05/10/24 – Goldie – Oslo, Norway %
Sun 06/10/24 – Fangelset – Gothenburg, Sweden %
Mon 07/10/24 – Slaktkyrkan – Stockholm, Sweden %
Wed 09/10/24 – Lacznik – Wroclaw, Poland %
Thu 10/10/24 – Hybrydy – Warsaw, Poland %
Fri 11/10/24 – 2progi – Poznan, Poland %
Sat 12/10/24 – Kabinet Muz – Brno, Czech Rep %
Sun 13/10/24 – KuBa Jena – Jena, Germany %

US Dates
Fri 25/10/24 – Black Cat – Washington, DC &
Sat 26/10/24 – Kings – Raleigh, NC &
Sun 27/10/24 – Grey Eagle – Asheville, NC &
Mon 28/10/24 – The Earl – Atlanta, GA &
Wed 30/10/24 – White Oak – Houston, TX &
Thu 31/10/24 – Levitation – Austin, TX &
Sat 02/11/24 – Valley Bar – Phoenix, AZ #
Sun 03/11/24 – Teragram Ballroom – Los Angeles, CA #
Mon 04/11/24 – GAMH Psyched Fest – San Francisco, CA #
Thu 07/11/24 – Mississippi Studios – Portland, OR #
Fri 08/11/24 – Freakout Festival – Seattle, WA  ^
Sat 09/11/24 – The Pearl – Vancouver, BC

% w/ Stella Rose
& w/ YHWH Nailgun
# w/ Pop Music Fever Dream
^ w/ The Black Angels, Martin Rev, The Black Lips & Shabazz Palaces

TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE

Photos credit – Ian Mc Donnell @mcgigmusic