As mentioned in my Sonic Boom post a couple of weeks ago, my quest for all things GLOK/Andy Bell related led me to A Place To Bury Strangers and their current remix collection, See Through You Rerealized, released at the beginning of June.
Styled as the "loudest band in New York" on the back of (in their own words) "wild live performances filled with beyond intense visuals and dangerous stage antics", APTBS are described on Discogs as purveyors of noise rock and shoegaze.
Whilst that may not be immediately apparent from See Through You Rerealized, most of the remixes are at least in a relatable area and have avoided going into full on, hands in the air, sirens blaring, trance territory. Case in point, the electro two-step of Let's See Each Other by the delightfully named Grimoose, which the band/label evidently liked enough to edit an official video for (actually dating from 2021).
Several songs get multiple reworkings, including I'm Hurt which appears in three variations. Two get accompanying 'visualiser' video knock offs (Melting Rust Opera's remix missing out, for some reason), first up a glam rock stomp by Trentemøller, followed by the aforementioned GLOK's audibly restrained bass-heavy synth-stabber.
The official video for I'm Hurt is the first in a series (of two, to date) created by horror film directors, not a genre I've kept up to speed with to be honest. This one is the handiwork of Chad Crawford Kinkle, whose CV includes Organ Grinder (2011), Jug Face (2013) and Dementer (2019).
The second, I Disappear (When You're Near), is directed by Keith Thomas, who debuted with The Vigil in 2019 and followed up in 2022 with a remake of Stephen King's Firestarter, starring Zac Efron no less.
If anything, the remix of I Disappear (When You're Near) by "art damaged" Detroit duo The Bodies Obtained ups the chill(er) factor and comes with it's own minimalistic video.
In complete contrast to yesterday's Deee-Lite post, none of these songs (or indeed the entirety of the See Through You Rerealized album) would be obvious choices to uplift or get your day off to an optimistic start, but they have a place. Whether that's to bury strangers or not is entirely up to you.
Missed the Glok remix so thanks for this. I had some APTBS stuff ages ago but had largely forgot about them
ReplyDeleteThe GLOK remix is a good 'un, unsurprisingly, as are the Sonic Boom reworkings. I have a little APTBS in my collection but either remixes of or by them, so watching the videos for this post was the first time that I heard what they 'actually' sound like!
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