Maybe it is better to just lose your hearing with age from all of the loud concerts and from listening to music in headphones much louder than you should. One of the alternatives is to keep your hearing intact but to make the people around you turn down the volume whenever you walk into a room. Maybe the alternative is to listen in a whisper to soft jazz bands playing pop hits.
Rock musicians don’t lose their inspiration as the years go by, or at least, that’s not the first thing that they lose. They misplace, first of all, the excitement of having a guitar amp wobble every time that you touch the strings of a guitar. They can no longer locate the joy of making the kind of music that would make hundreds of strangers tremble with excitement.
Years into their career A Place To Bury Strangers is driven by the same objectives – being louder than Motorhead, making your bones tremble whenever you see them live and singing about wild, tempestuous love affairs. With “It’s Too Much”, the New York/Berlin group is still in the game, working with rock and electronica sounds that have rarely been removed from the underground and promising to remain at the extreme of alternative music.