A Place to Bury Strangers (often abbreviated as APTPS) is a band that has gone through a number of line up changes over the years, including another one in 2021. The thread that runs through their entire history is that their music is built on the basic post-punk architecture with a prominent bass line that drives a dark and ominous theme working together with a drum pattern at the foreground, a buzzing and swirling electric guitar that provides the mood often in the background, and snarling low register vocals delivering lyrics that are typically not terribly uplifting. Their music is driven mostly by the bass. The band has drifted in and out of shoegaze over the years, mostly as a function of the intensity of the guitars and how the instruments are being mixed at the time.