There’s always been something beautifully disorienting about A Place To Bury Strangers, a sense that their music exists where emotion distorts just enough to feel dangerous again. With Where Are We Now, the New York outfit lean into that feeling, pulling fragments from the past and letting them hum with unresolved tension. The track arrives as the third glimpse into Rare And Deadly, a collection that already feels less like a compilation and more like an excavation.
Ackermann says the song is about “looking back at friends you lost touch with. Wondering where they ended up. Remembering when everything felt possible.” That sentiment bleeds into every corner of the track, which moves like a half-forgotten conversation.
Built from archival footage sourced from the Library of Congress National Archives, the accompanying video reframes faces and moments suspended in time. Ackermann says he made the video because “I think we need to look at people more and see the value and wonder of life so we can be compassionate towards others."
Where Are We Now revolves around the uncomfortable area within which uncertainty and nostalgia collide, where reaching out seems essential and unattainable.
Rare And Deadly will be out April 3rd, 2026, via Dedstrange.
Photo by Holger Nitschke
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