Kevin Bronson on December 12th, 2014

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A Place to Bury Strangers announced last week that their fourth full-length, “Transfixiation,” would arrive Feb. 17 via Dead Oceans, and the New York trio sounds as menacing as ever. The single “Straight” boasts the kind of animalistic bass line and caustic distortion you can’t wait to feel live, assuming you remember your high-test earplugs. The band – singer-guitarist Oliver Ackermann, bassist Dion Lunadon and drummer Robi Gonzalez – found a video collaborator in Brook Linder, who was inspired by a youth spent attempting to watch jumbled cable TV. (If you didn’t subscribe, you could almost make out some images if a neighbor had a signal.) The press release explains the mélange of imagery: “All the effects were dubbed to VHS, run through analog synthesizers and brought back to match the band’s analog-affected sound.”

||| Live: A Place to Bury Strangers plays the Echo on March 15.