The fact that the band from New York City arrived to Australia after an
U.S. tour sharing the stage with iconic noise-pop band ‘The Jesus and Mary Chain’
-whose album Psychocandy became a reference point for many later ‘shoegaze’
bands- explains a lot of what we saw at the Corner last Friday night.
A loud distorted sound-wave was pushed from the stage -at times juts
drone, other times melodic and sweet- to
hit the audience to the point of numbing their senses, presumably so they could
forget about the notes –and themselves- to remain focus on the raw musical experience.
To see A Place to Bury Strangers live was simply breathtaking: by the
end of the show the noise and the lights became overwhelming, slightly painful.
The trio then stepped off the stage, walked towards the mixing table and -surrounded
by a curious audience-, transferred the residual noise from the last few chords
still buzzing on the stage to a psychedelic trance-like beat that went on for
at least ten minutes.
When the beat stopped, a feeling of emptiness was left in the room, like
something exploded and could never be put back together again.
I left the Corner with a smile, and the feeling that I witnessed something
extraordinary for the last 90 minutes.
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