No one sounds quite like A Place to Bury Strangers. While there’s no shortage of bands using copious amounts of effects pedals to warp their guitars into otherworldly behemoths, few create soundscapes as horrifying or enthralling as Oliver Ackermann and his revolving cast of supporting musicians. Across fifteen years, Ackermann & Co. have churned out noise-buried pop songs that, while they don’t necessarily sound exactly the same, all hold to the same cacophonous ethos that finds APTBS successfully defending their title as the heir apparent to The Jesus and Mary Chain’s throne. And on their sixth album, See Through You, they’re not letting up one inch of ground.

Of course, the band’s unrelenting consistency is a double-edged consistency. There are scads of hipster naysayers writing off their continuing catalog as uninspired, serving more as a demo reel of Ackermann’s effects company, Death By Audio, than earnest songwriting efforts. And yeah, if you’re looking for it, there’s plenty of evidence for his commercial ulterior motives—the guitar effects on this disc are incredibly varied, with plenty of timbres that show up for a single track and then disappear. But if you’re trying to find a lack of songwriting…you’re gonna be disappointed.

Beneath the grotesque towers of guitar noise and drum machines, defiantly abrasive production, and layers of echo on Ackermann’s voice, these are some of the catchiest songs A Place to Bury Strangers has ever released. Lead single “I’m Hurt” is deceptively catchy for its simplicity and bursts of industrial noise. “I Disappear (When You’re Near)” might actual be a tender love ballad if it weren’t for the shrieks of guitar feedback. “Broken” is energetic and sneeringly jubilant, coming as close to straightforward punk as APTBS has ever gotten. “I Don’t Know How You Do It” actually sounds…triumphant. Closer “Love Reaches Out” strips away most of the fuzz and feedback and delivers a pretty convincing New Order impression (which makes sense—any time I explain that A Place To Bury Strangers isn’t a metalcore band, which many people assume by the name, I offer up the image of JAMC, My Bloody Valentine, and Joy Division put in a blender and pressing “puree”).

But don’t let my focus on how catchy the album is get in the way of understanding that this is maybe the noisiest thing they’ve done in a over a decade. Their third album Worship smoothed out many of the rough edges around their sound, a trend that has largely continued in subsequent albums. But with See Through You, they’re as noisy—and as good—as ever.

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