A Place To Bury Strangers' Head Explodes

Noise pop trio A Place To Bury Strangers want to make your head explode.

The Brooklyn, N.Y. band's sophomore album Exploding Head drops Oct. 6 through Mute Records, and they've announced a month-long fall tour in support of the record.

Darker My Love, All The Saints and Dead Confederate will join the band as openers on select dates.

"The original idea [behind Exploding Head]," says vocalist/guitarist Oliver Ackermann, "was to create the craziest, most fucked-up recording ever."

While recording the album, Ackermann says engineer Andy Smith (Paul Simon, David Bowie) took the band to "a whole other level."

"I love the interplay and contrasts between something that's pretty and something that's scary," Ackermann says.

"Taking listeners to different places — even in one song — is so important, whether it makes them cry or pissed off. If you listen closely, some of the riffs on this record are actually like Ramones songs or '60s bubblegum pop."

A Place To Bury Strangers released their self-titled debut in 2007.

Ackermann, bassist Jono MOFO and drummer Jay Space will play the following dates:

July 25 Steventon, England @ Hill Farm (Truck Festival)
July 26 London, England @ Shoreditch Park (Shoreditch Park Festival)
July 29 Helsinki, Finland @ Tavastia w/Dead Combo
July 30 Tampere, Finland @ Tampere Klubi w/Dead Combo
July 31 Turku, Finland @ Turku Klubi w/Dead Combo
Aug. 14 St-Malo, France @ La Route Du Rock Festival
Aug. 21 Hasselt, Belgium @ Pukkelpop Festival
Aug. 28 Reading, England @ Richfield Avenue (Reading Festival)
Aug. 30 Leeds, England @ Bramham Park (Leeds Festival)
Oct. 4 Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda's w/Darker My Love and All The Saints
Oct. 5 Washington, DC @ Rock And Roll Hotel w/Darker My Love and All The Saints
Oct. 6 Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506 w/Darker My Love and All The Saints
Oct. 7 Atlanta, GA @ The Drunken Unicorn w/Darker My Love and All The Saints
Oct. 8 Tallahassee, FL @ Club Downunder w/Darker My Love and All The Saints
Oct. 9 New Orleans, LA @ One Eye'd Jacks w/Darker My Love and All The Saints
Oct. 10 Dallas, TX @ Club Dada w/Darker My Love and All The Saints
Oct. 11 Austin, TX @ The Mohawk w/Darker My Love and All The Saints
Oct. 13 Tucson, AZ @ Plush w/Darker My Love and All The Saints
Oct. 15 San Diego, CA @ Casbah w/Darker My Love and All The Saints
Oct. 16 Los Angeles, CA @ Echo w/Darker My Love and All The Saints
Oct. 17 San Francisco, CA @ The Independent w/All The Saints
Oct. 18 Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge w/All The Saints
Oct. 19 Seattle, WA @ Crocodile Cafe w/All The Saints
Oct. 20 Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret w/All The Saints
Oct. 22 Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge w/All The Saints
Oct. 23 Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge w/All The Saints
Oct. 25 St. Louis, MO @ Firebird w/All The Saints
Oct. 26 Chicago, IL @ Double Door w/Dead Confederate and All The Saints
Oct. 27 Toronto, ON @ The Mod Club w/Dead Confederate and All The Saints
Oct. 28 Montreal, QC @ Il Motore w/Dead Confederate and All The Saints
Oct. 29 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom w/Dead Confederate and All The Saints
Oct. 30 Cambridge, MA @ The Middle East Restaurant & Nightclub (Upstairs) w/Dead Confederate and All The Saints

Here's the tracklisting to Exploding Head:

"It Is Nothing"
"In Your Heart"
"Lost Feeling"
"Deadbeat"
"Keep Slipping Away"
"Ego Death"
"Smile When You Smile"
"Everything Always Goes Wrong"
"Exploding Head"
"I Live My Life To Stand In The Shadow Of Your Heart"