- Record Label: Dead Oceans Records
- Release Date: Feb 7, 2012
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Jun 29, 2012The placeholder EP is blunter and slighter than the album.
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Feb 3, 2012Onwards is, at its heart, just one big suicide tease, which is what makes it so fantastic.
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Feb 10, 2012If you happen to like British-sounding bands that brood and are dissonant, Onwards to the Wall, as an extended play, is a near essential purchase, and one that will have you salivating as to where this band is going next.
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Feb 9, 2012The 5 songs in 16 minutes breeze by, barely after you've had a chance to absorb them, leave you hungering for more.
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Feb 7, 2012It's a restatement of relevance, a testament to strong songwriting, and ultimately, a legacy enhancer that they desperately needed.
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Feb 3, 2012With moments of breathing room and stripped melodies, APTBS continue subtle explorations of their strengths and the conflict between cacophony and harmony.
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Feb 3, 2012It is unmistakeably A Place To Bury Strangers and they're giving us what we want. The only additional complaint is that there's not enough of it.
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Feb 24, 2012The band manages throughout Onwards to the Wall to keep things just about as industrial as they can get. And without abandoning pop for metal by always maintaining a strict allegiance to simplicity.
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Feb 8, 2012This new release does function better as a cohesive work, but oddly enough they seem to have restricted their musical vocabulary even further.
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Feb 7, 2012In its own way, Onwards to the Wall is just as exciting as Exploding Head was, managing to sum up the band's sound and move forward at the same time.
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May 31, 2012Like a strawberry cupcake covered in Szechuan pepper, A Place To Bury Strangers finds the sweet spot by ripping its way through in Onwards to the Wall.
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UncutFeb 3, 2012Other tracks hide catchier tunes amid the quagmire of guitar. [Mar 2012, p.79]
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Under The RadarFeb 3, 2012As APTBS refine what they do, they stir in more noise, along with stylistic drifts into the space-rock and noise-rock arenas. [#39, p.73]
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Feb 6, 2012More color-by-numbers post punk that uses too many grays and not enough pure blacks.
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Mar 8, 2012Softening their sound hasn't led to more fans, but to a blander, weaker and unsatisfying sound.
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