Welcome back to Crate Digging, our recurring feature that takes a deep dive into music history to turn up several albums all music fans should know. In this edition, A Place to Bury Strangers’ Oliver Ackermann highlights 10 of his favorite albums from off the beat and path ahead of the band’s appearance at Elsewhere Festival 2024.
Nevermind the shoegaze revival, Brooklyn’s A Place to Bury Strangers have been putting their guitar tones through hell and back for over two decades. From their dazzling, noisy self-tilted debut to 2022’s killer See Through You, just when it seems like songwriter and bandleader Oliver Ackermann has explored every possible way to add to his wall of sound, he comes through with yet another set of even more all-encompassing tunes.
As the founder of the boutique pedal manufacturer/DIY event and recording space/underground record label Death by Audio, Ackermann has fully established himself as not only a staple creator in the outsider arts scene, but a community leader as well. And throughout such a journey, the polymath has accrued quite an interesting palette of wonderfully eccentric music.
So, ahead of A Place to Bury Strangers’ appearance at the inaugural Elsewhere Festival and Conference, we connected with Ackermann to round up a list of 10 under appreciated outsider records he thinks every music fan should hear. From the found audio experiments of Matchess to the recent Aussie-psych stylings of Gee Tee, strap in for a truly wild ride.
Read on for Oliver Ackermann of A Place to Bury Strangers’ list of 10 outsider records that everyone should own. Also be sure to check out their set at Elsewhere Festival, which takes place June 21st and 22nd in Wichita, Kansas and features other performers like Killer Mike, Vince Staples, Steve Aoki, BADBADNOTGOOD, and more. Grab your tickets here.