Plattenbau Hollywood ( A Place To Bury Strangers Remix)
Director, Editor: Lewis Lloyd DOP Sebastian Steins Hollywood is the first single from Berlin art punks Plattenbau s upcoming album Shape, Shifting. Sounding like Joy Division on a dark VHS soundtrack, derailing into an explosive chorus soaked in overdrive, Hollywood is a song about greed and infatuation depicting mans primal impulses to take, to extract, to possess rather than to give and to share, but ultimately evinces the belief that this cycle can be broken. The A Place To Bury Strangers remix drives things out of that pop atmosphere, and into a whirring deep space fever dream. Choppy distorted guitars pull your focus in every direction. The song packs a totally different sonic punch and stimulates a sense of anxiety which is unmistakably from A Place To Bury Strangers tone arsenal. it sounds like the Plattenbau sound has been drained from the Berlin swamp and experienced a death by audio through the APTBS meat grinder, coming out in an oozing melodic fuzz, which
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