Noise “Worship” From A Place To Bury Strangers Previews Upcoming Show In Hamden

A Place To Bury Strangers play The Space in Hamden July 30. Their new album, Worship, was released June 26. (Handout photo)

A Place To Bury Strangers does one thing and they do it well: get loud.

In fact the New York group is billed as the loudest band in the city. If their live performance in Hamden next month is anything like their latest release, “Worship,” neighbors may complain.

From the first track, the album grabs hold with simple driving beats and muted explosions and doesn’t relinquish for the next nine songs. Waves of distorted noisy noir drench almost every nook and cranny. There isn’t much change up on the album, save for a brief slowdown for ‘Slide,’ which pulls the listener down a slope to dark childhood dreams beyond dreams.

Reverberating vocal stylings draw deserved comparisons to The Jesus And Mary Chain, sounding as though they may have been recorded in a cave or shower stall and filtered through the beams of a rainbow.

Most tracks are interchangeable, but if a nonstop, encroaching, drive-faster-faster-until-you-puke noise rock album is appealing, this adrenaline belongs in your veins.

A Place To Bury Strangers play their first show ever in Connecticut at The Space in Hamden July 30. Hunters  and New Haven’s kraut-gaze heroes Landing open. Tickets are $12.