New York noise-rock mainstays A Place To Bury Strangers have announced a new rarities collection titled Rare And Deadly, set for release on 3rd April 3rd. To mark the news, the band have unveiled lead single Everyone’s The Same, offering a first glimpse into a project that dives deep into the group’s most unguarded and volatile moments.
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Arriving in the wake of 2024’s Synthesizer, Rare And Deadly opens a vault spanning 2015–2025, gathering demos, B-sides, abandoned experiments and long-forgotten fragments. Sourced from frontman Oliver Ackermann’s personal archive of late-night recordings and blown-out tape sessions, the album captures the band in their rawest state — ideas forming, mutating and, at times, imploding.
Rather than presenting a definitive anthology, Rare And Deadly takes a deliberately fractured approach. Each format — CD, cassette, vinyl and digital — features its own unique tracklisting. No single version contains the same set of songs, making every edition a distinct window into the band’s archive. It’s a bold, almost unheard-of strategy that mirrors the instability and spontaneity at the heart of the recordings themselves.
Across its 25 tracks — including Acid Rain, Dead Inside, Energy, On The Wire and You Know It When You Know It — the collection documents the evolution of Ackermann’s restless creative drive. Some songs feel like early blueprints for later studio releases; others are beautifully derailed detours, too strange or too personal to ever settle into a conventional album framework.
Lead single Everyone’s The Same embodies that tension. Built on delicate melodies that teeter on the brink of obliteration, it swells into walls of distortion where beauty and abrasion coexist uneasily. Reflecting on the track, Ackermann describes a dreamlike vision of serenity corrupted by something sinister — a peaceful brook disturbed by an unsettling presence — capturing the duality that defines both the song and the band’s wider ethos.
More than a compilation, Rare And Deadly plays like a documentary of sound in flux. You can hear the room, the accidents, the malfunctioning pedals pushed beyond their limits. It’s a reminder that A Place To Bury Strangers have always thrived in the space between control and collapse, melody and noise, clarity and distortion.
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