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Q MagazineJul 25, 2012What is surprising is just how chief songwriter Oliver Ackermann shapes their face-melting shoegaze into something altogether more sophisticated. [Aug 2012, p.94]
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Kerrang!Jul 9, 2012It's not what you came in for, but quite pleasant all the same. [10 Jun 2012, p.53]
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Jul 5, 2012A Place to Bury Strangers are adept at capturing a certain kind of aggressive energy, but too often they bottle it in middling pop songs.
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Jul 3, 2012While Worship occasionally soars on its own beautiful anonymity, it misses the bar set by a line of charismatic frontmen who exposed themselves through compelling narratives.
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UncutJul 2, 2012The highlights of their third album appear to have been forged rather than recorded. [Aug 2012, p.69]
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Jun 25, 2012Worship doesn't break new ground, and it's arguably not even the greatest record done in this vein (or even the greatest record by APTBS, for that matter). But there's a diligent craftsmanship here and just enough attitude to carry the album all the way to the finish line.
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Jun 22, 2012Make no mistake, this record sounds amazing... But in choosing to stick to classic song structures rather than utilise their incredible sound technology to explore the experimental avant-garde, or to make killer dance tracks, A Place To Bury Strangers run the risk of all their songs sounding pretty much the same.
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Jun 12, 2012APTBS mask a lack of ideas or something to say by inventing louder volumes than everyone else.
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Jun 11, 2012An exhaustingly incoherent listen.
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Jun 8, 2012Despite the aggression in their music, it's not uncommon for APTBS to tone things down a few tracks into an album, but watch out for the lull in this one.