Welcome back to Crate Digging, our recurring feature that delves into music history to find various albums every music fan should know about. In this edition, Oliver Ackermann of A Place to Bury Strangers highlights 10 of his favorite albums off the beat and the lead up to the band's appearance at Elsewhere Festival 2024.
Regardless of the shoegaze resurgence, Brooklyn's A Place to Bury Strangers has been taking their guitar tones through hell for over two decades. From their dazzling, loud self-proclaimed debut to 2022's killer See through youJust when it seems like songwriter and bandleader Oliver Ackermann has explored every possible way to increase his wall of sound, he appears with another set of even more encompassing tunes.
As founder of boutique pedal maker/DIY event and underground recording space/label Death by Audio, Ackermann has fully established himself not only as a staple creator in the outsider art scene, but also as a community leader. And along that journey, the scholar has amassed quite an interesting palette of wonderfully eccentric music.
So, before A Place to Bury Strangers appeared at the opening Festival and Conference elsewhere, we connected with Ackermann to put together a list of 10 underappreciated external records he thinks every music fan should listen to. From the found audio experiments of Matchess to the recent Aussie psych stylings of Gee Tee, get ready for a truly wild ride.
Read on for A Place to Bury Strangers' Oliver Ackermann's list of 10 external drives everyone should own. Also be sure to check out his performance at Elsewhere Festival, taking place June 21-22 in Wichita, Kansas and featuring other artists such as Killer Mike, Vince Staples, Steve Aoki, BADBADNOTGOOD and more. Grab your tickets here.
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