A Place To Bury Strangers dig deep for emotional new single ‘Where Are We Now’

A Place To Bury Strangers have never really done anything the easy way — and their latest single Where Are We Now is no exception. The third track to emerge from the New York noise architects’ forthcoming rarities album ‘Rare And Deadly’ (out April 3rd via Dedstrange), the song trades in the full-throttle sonic assault of previous single Acid Rain for something altogether more haunted: a meditation on lost connections, faded dreams, and the quiet ache of wondering where the people you used to know ended up.

Frontman Oliver Ackermann frames it simply: “Looking back at friends you lost touch with. Wondering where they ended up. Remembering when everything felt possible.” That nostalgia lands hard against the band’s characteristically swirling, feedback-drenched backdrop — melody and distortion doing what they always do in APTBS world, pulling in opposite directions until something beautiful breaks loose.

The accompanying video — assembled by Ackermann himself using footage from the Library of Congress National Archives — leans into the song’s humanist core. “I think we need to look at people more and see the value and wonder of life so we can be compassionate towards others,” he says. It’s a striking visual choice: anonymous archival lives pressed into service for a song about the ones we let slip away

Where Are We Now is the latest glimpse into ’Rare And Deadly,’ a decade-spanning vault raid covering 2015–2025 that pulls from Ackermann’s personal archive of demos, B-sides, blown-out tapes, and abandoned experiments. The record’s concept is almost audaciously anti-streaming-era: CD, cassette, vinyl, and digital editions each carry their own unique tracklisting, meaning no single format tells the whole story. It’s a deliberately fractured document — the kind of release that rewards format obsessives and punishes algorithm dependence. Perfect, really, for a band that has always thrived in the tension between control and collapse.

’Rare And Deadly’ is available to pre-order now. A Place To Bury Strangers also head out on a sweeping European tour beginning April 7th in Hamburg — full dates below.

A Place To Bury Strangers — Tour Dates

April
7 — Hamburg, DE @ MS Stubnitz
8 — Leipzig, DE @ UT Connewitz
9 — Praha, CZ @ Futurum Music Bar
10 — Brno-město, CZ @ Kabinet múz
11 — Bratislava, SK @ Pink Whale Bar
12 — Budapest, HU @ A38
13 — Belgrade, RS @ Karmakoma
14 — Sofia, BG @ Mixtape 5
15 — București, RO @ Control Club
17 — Thessaloniki, GR @ Eightball Club
18 — Athina, GR @ Gazarte
20 — Rome, IT @ Monk Club
21 — Florence, IT @ Ex Fila
22 — Bologna, IT @ Social Center TPO
23 — Milan, IT @ Santeria
24 — Zurich, CH @ Bogen F
26 — Brussels, BE @ Magasin 4
27 — Cologne, DE @ Gebäude 9
29 — Utrecht, NL @ De Helling
30 — Deventer, NL @ Burgerweeshuis

May
1 — Eindhoven, NL @ Fuzz Club Festival 2026

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