Watch: A Place To Bury Strangers “Straight”

A Place To Bury Strangers will release their Transfixiation LP on February 17th via Dead Oceans, and today we checkout the band’s new video for the album’s first single, “Straight“. Directed by Brook Linder, the video uses a glitched, VHS look to quite unsettling ends. Opening with a hand-held long shot of a smoggy urban skyscape, with APTBS providing an imposing subterranean rumble just beneath the sonic surface, we watch as the distant buildings shake loose from their moorings and grow upwards like menacing, dark towers. This image, like something straight out of a nightmare, is followed by a wild barrage of color-burned footage that includes all kinds of psychotronic creepiness, complete with animating occult sigils, and vocalist Oliver Ackermann‘s neon colored profile singing in relief. APTBS will spend the Spring of 2015 touring the US and Europe in support of their new record. Here are those dates…
02/17 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg
02/18 – Philadelphia, PA – Black Box
02/19 – Baltimore, MD – Metro Gallery
02/20 – Washington, DC – Rock & Roll Hotel
02/21 – Asheville, NC – New Mountain Theatre
02/22 – Atlanta, GA – The Earl
02/23 – Nashville, TN – The End
02/25 – New Orleans, LA – Gasa Gasa
02/26 – Houston, TX – Fitzgerald’s Downstairs
02/27 – Dallas, TX – Club Dada
02/28 – Austin, TX – Red 7
03/04 – Oklahoma City, OK – The Conservatory
03/06 – Albuquerque, NM – Sisters
03/07 – El Paso, TX – Lowbrow Palace
03/09 – Tuscon, AZ – Hotel Congress
03/10 – Phoenix, AZ – Valley Bar
03/11 – San Diego, CA – Casbah
03/12 – Las Vegas, NV – Beauty Bar
03/13 – Santa Cruz, CA – The Catalyst Atrium
03/14 – San Francisco, CA – The Chapel
03/15 – Los Angeles, CA – The Echo
03/17 – Portland, OR – Star Theater
03/18 – Seattle, WA – Crocodile
03/31 – Dublin, IE – Whelans
04/01 – Belfast, IE – Voodoo
04/02 – Glasgow, IE – King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut
04/03 – Leeds, UK – Belgrave Music Hall
04/05 – Manchester, UK – Sound Control
04/06 – Nottingham, UK – The Bodega Social Club
04/07 – Birmingham, UK – Hare & Hounds
04/08 – Cardiff, UK – Clwb lfor Bach
04/09 – London, UK – Oslo
04/11 – Lille, FR – La Peniche
04/12 – Ris-Orangis, FR – Le Plan
04/13 – Paris, FR – Le Divan du Monde
04/14 – Lyon, FR – Le Marche Gare
04/16 – Zurich, CH – Viadukt – Bogen F
04/17 – Bologna, IT – Locomotiv
04/18 – Dudingen, CH – Cafe Bad Bonn
04/19 – Munich, DE – Strom
04/21 – Berlin, DE – Lido
04/22 – Cologne, DE – Underground
04/23 – Courtrai, BE – De Kreun
04/24 – Amsterdam, NL – Melkweg
04/25 – Groningen, NL – Vera
04/27 – Hamburg, DE – Hafenklang
04/28 – Copenhagen, DK – BETA
04/29 – Malmo, SE – Babel TICKETS
04/30 – Gothenburg, SE – Pustervik
05/01 – Stockholm, SE – Debaser Strand
05/02 – Oslo, NO – John Dee
05/08 to 5/10 – Austin, TX @ Austin Psych Fest