Screens were featured prominently in the video for A Place To Bury Strangers’ ear-exploding Exploding Head track “In Your Heart,” and the motif carries over into the Brendan Bellomo & Greg Wilson directed clip for “Keep Slipping Away.” Then they were obscuring the band in a bout of shadowplay; here Oliver Ackermann’s trapped in static and captured in a TV set hurled out the window by a lady who’s metaphorically doing the same to their relationship. There are glimpses of Oliver hard at work in his Death By Audio guitar pedal factory — where those Factory Records-ready effects are conceived — submerging himself so deeply in art trying to capture the beauty of his woman that he loses sight of the real thing. The ballad of a workaholic. The final scene is a television containing an image of the couple in happier times, hitting the sidewalk for a literal take on the album’s title. Poetry in explosion.
Exploding Head is out via Mute.
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Definitely one of the most solid tracks on the LP. That and Exploding Head.
This a great song, but listen to “The Baby Screams” by The Cure and the resemblance is shocking. I actually enjoy this song more, but I’m just sayin’.
shame on allya for not putting this record in the best of 2009
? ? “If I could turn by time” ? ?
-Cher
Great song and video.
I’m curious who the girl is in the video.
Hey, I am almost certain the girl in this video is the bassist from The Shorebirds?????
Can anyone confirm this? Whatever, cool video, great band, cool song.
The music sounds like Cure but the vocals melody sounds like Policy of Truth by Depeche Mode.