A Place to Bury Strangers - Missing You

Hard fast and loud beats are the defining features of this single and - even more so - the B-side 'To Fix the Gash in Your Head'.  The band prides themselves on being loud.  Great.  If they added 'good' to that list, then we'd be onto a winner.

But I'm being overly harsh here, I did quite like this single, but it's not something I'd go back to.  I'm into very little in the way of noise rock really, and this doesn't quite cut it for me.  They have some top-draw name dropping (tours with Nine Inch Nails, MGMT and the Dandy Warhols as well as the lead man building custom effects pedals for My Bloody Valentine and Wilco), but I think they will always be connected with these bands, without being one of them.

One thing I will say in their favour, however, is that their record label (Rocket Girl) has the most (I think deliberately) phallic logo of any record label I've ever come across.  And don't even think of making a double entendre there.