New York noise-rock icons A Place To Bury Strangers have returned with “Acid Rain,” the second single from their upcoming rarities collection, Rare and Deadly, arriving April 3rd via Dedstrange. Born out of the political turbulence of the first Trump presidency, the track is a visceral collision of rage, grief, and disbelief. Frontman Oliver Ackerman weaves real-world urgency into the song’s industrial pulse, incorporating field recordings of chants from the George Floyd protests in Manhattan and Brooklyn. The result is a haunting aural documentary of a fractured era, capturing what Ackerman describes as the “racist machinery” of power and the horrifying normalisation of cruelty.
Of the single, Oliver Ackman states,
‘Acid Rain’ is rage, grief, and disbelief all colliding at once—the sound of watching history repeat itself while knowing exactly how wrong it is.
To match the track’s unruly energy, the band released a high-octane music video filmed guerrilla-style on the New York City subway in early 2026. Performing without a script or choreography, the trio turned a moving train into a makeshift stage, detonating a wall of feedback as they crossed the Williamsburg Bridge into the Lower East Side. This raw, unedited footage serves as a perfect preview for Rare and Deadly, an album that prioritises restless experimentation and “accidental” beauty over studio polish. It is a bold reminder that the band thrives best in the volatile space between control and total sonic collapse.
