Check out this retro-tastic video from Brooklyn’s A Place to Bury Strangers. I am not sure what is happening here, but I like it. It’s a blissed-out, stoned take on ’70s sci-fi flicks, complete with forbidden interracial love, bad costumes, and horses racing on the open plain. Also, there are exploding volcanoes and some old dude with awesome shoulder pads leering into the camera.

My reaction to A Place to Bury Stranger’s music depends on my mood. Sometimes it seems overly noisy, and I am not always patient enough to give it the attention it deserves. But if I give it a moment, and sift through the effects pedals and blurry white noise, I find melodies and emotions as potent as those of the Jesus & Mary Chain (an easy reference point). It’s bubble gum wrapped in static and aluminum foil; this video is the perfect illustration of how APTBS’s music sounds like it was beamed from a far-off planet, and we’re only getting invaluable artifacts and fragments of the transmission.

A Place to Bury Strangers plays tonight with Holy Fuck and the Upsidedown. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside, 9 pm, $12 at the door