Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Another Step Away - A Place To Bury Strangers - A Place To Bury Strangers - 2007

Man was this album a breath of fresh air last year. I fear a world in which all of the good melodic music that's produced is the product of Sufjan like gentility. A world in which sweet melodies aren't covered in walls of noise to make their delicacy more palatable, a world in which raw anger is replaced by a blissed out numbness, and naked, earnest emotion is preferred to dense confusion and ambiguous dread...this is the fear that keeps me up at night.

But then a band like APTBS comes along and sounds as if they might want to tear the world down to it's foundations, and my faith in humanity is restored.

Keep rocking you W-burg guitar nerds, you're the only hope we got...

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