a place to bury strangers – i know i’ll see you

no matter how short or mild a winter is, it’s always dreadful. between the late sunrise and the early sundown lies a short and grey smear impersonating a day. in school i got taught that every season has its own colour. winter is white, spring is green, summer is… i don’t know… yellow? for me winter was always grey and summer always bright yellow. maybe it’s because of the bright light everywhere or of the grass on unwatered lawns turned brown and yellow. but the image of a yellow summer was always with me. that and that humming sound. a constant hum of cicadas and high voltage wires. and the white noise in my ears when i got a headache from dehydration. when i tried to do an aquarelle for school depicting my last weekend it was a arrangement of yellow of all shades and lightness. but mostly very bright yellow.
a place to bury strangers use that hum to create a distanced sound that feels like a summer day. first pleasant and relaxing, then lulling you to a light sleep and before you know you’re worn out by the intensity and the omnipresence of that background hum. it gets you slowly.
that’s why they are not exactly like the jesus and mary chain. sure, the first thing that comes to mind when you hear a place to bury strangers is “just like honey” by the jesus and mary chain but “psychocandy”, the jesus and mary chains first album is more aggressive; attacking you with it’s overkill distortion and wears you out within the first two minutes. i always suspected their wall of noise to be the sound of heroin and only people on heroin could really like “psychocandy”. then i heard “darklands” and was disappointed by the literally “clean” sound. everything that made this sound for me was gone and i realized how much i actually like that psyche sound.
besides that shoegazing and heavy distortion both bands have in common what a place to bury strangers are lacking is the cold britishness, the angst and depression that the jesus and mary chain manifested in their sound. a place to bury strangers have a summer sound. even though they are from new york and not california.



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