Photo by Holger Nitschke

Somewhere out there in Austin, TX, there’s a whole entire industry-insulated music festival going on, and if you’ve barely heard anything a word about anything coming out of it in comparison to the years where your timeline couldn’t avoid it if it could, you’re not alone. At one point in time A Place To Bury Strangers were once considered a “buzz” band who probably found themselves in the whirlwind of it all, and they’ve managed to withstand the sea changes of it all. Now they’re looking back on their past with a brand new collection of B-sides, rarities and demos entitled Rare and Deadly.

On its latest preview “Where Are We Now?”, Oliver Auckermann and company are “looking back at friends you lost touch with. Wondering where they ended up. Remembering when everything felt possible.” It’s a deeply reflectory listen — a stark, Bauhaus architecture of gothic post-punk dismembered from the white noise and static wall of sound which the NYC underground staples blistered onto the scene with. “Where we are now? / Caught in our lives / Did our dreams fade?,” he sings, as if they’re opening unexplored doors to new feelings of strangeness by peering at their past from today.

Directed by: Oliver Ackermann

A Place To Bury Strangers’ Rare and Deadly will be released April 3rd on Dedstrange.