A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS: IN YOUR HEART

Discosalt Video of the Week 2/7/10: These go to 11. This weeks video of the week for “In Your Heart” comes from Brooklyn’s volume knob maximalist trio A Place to Bury Strangers off their appropriately titled sophomore album Exploding Head.  While the album came out last fall, it’s worth revisiting.  An obvious nod to My Bloody Valentine, Jesus & Mary Chain,and Echo and the Bunnymen, Exploding Head’s “In Your Heart”, sounds most like Joy Division. With its bitter lyrics, reverb drenched guitar hooks and synthier 80s drum machine beats, it’s dark, loud, reckless and makes us believe the hype that maybe they are New York City’s “loudest band”.   The video, directed by Adam Grabarnick, cinematographer Marcos Durian and produced by Sara Laffer manages to capture a snapshot of the band live, a throwback to New Yorks grittier new wave basement clubs only louder, where volume and thrashing through a sweat soaked crowd can get you as f%#ed as the booze.