- Record Label: Dead Oceans Records
- Release Date: Feb 17, 2015
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Mar 5, 2015Transfixiation shows a dangerous band finally sounding as dangerous as their live show indicates.
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Feb 20, 2015By the time Transfixiation culminates in the fireball that is "I Will Die," it feels like A Place to Bury Strangers have escaped from the wreckage to deliver some of their darkest and most diverse music yet.
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Feb 10, 2015While Transfixiation doesn't answer that question ["What have I become?"] specifically, it represents another giant step forwards in A Place To Bury Strangers' continual evolution.
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Jan 29, 2015For a band so obsessed with death, and its erotic possibilities, they sound utterly alive on Transfixiation.
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May 7, 2015The NYCers fourth LP pulls from the trio's usual obsessions--shoegaze, noise rock, 120 Minutes circa 1988--with zero interest in making things easy.
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Feb 17, 2015The band’s small but noticeable stabs at restraint make Transfixiation another step forward in A Place To Bury Strangers’ evolution from brutal experimentalists to more pop-conscious noise rockers.
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Feb 12, 2015With Transfixiation, they’ve provided a compelling rebuke to their detractors; once again, there’s no shortage of consideration behind the chaos.
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MagnetFeb 19, 2015If there is no respite from volume, there are variations in pacing. [No. 117, p.59]
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Feb 18, 2015A Place to Bury Strangers is one of those bands like Clinic; they've never made a bad album even if normal listeners have decided they only need one or two of them. Transfixiation might not be one of those two, but the abnormals have more fun.
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Feb 13, 2015The best moments are when all of these elements are working together to make songs both catchy and corrosive, like the propulsive "We've Come So Far" (one of the two tunes recorded in Norway with Serena-Maneesh bandleader Emil Nikolaisen) and the unhinged bass feature, "Straight."
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Feb 17, 2015Transfixiation is at its best, however, when a little restraint casts its own spooky shadows.
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Feb 24, 2015There may be variances in sound on a track-by-track basis, but individual songs lack any real dynamic shifts and as a result this makes Transfixiation a fairly gruelling listen.