When your band leader makes his own guitar pedals under the company name Death By Audio, you can bet your band will understand the art of making some pretty righteous noise. And so is the case with Oliver Ackermann and A Place To Bury Stangers. Picking up where Ackermann's old band Skywave left off, this is 21st-century guitar pop of the noisest, harshest persuasion. While it's next to impossible to not bring up The Jesus and Mary Chain when describing this band, that's only because few bands since then have proved so able to merge thick waves of trebly noise and feedback with sugary melody. Exhilarating stuff.