The Physical World
It's been ten years since Death From Above 1979 released their debut You're a Woman I'm a Machine, but this post-reunion second album sounds like it could've been recorded in the same year as that breakthrough debut. With The Physical World, Grainger and Keeler haven’t entirely scratched the itch they instigated a decade ago, but they’ve learned to live with the burn, and that’s the next best thing.
For as popular as dance-punk was in the early-to-mid-’00s, the major bands from that time—a crop that included Yeah Yeah Yeahs, !!!, The Rapture, and Liars, to name a few—very quickly evolved their sounds beyond sharp guitar bursts, staticky keyboards, and manic tempos. In hindsight, this progression can be seen as a…
The Canadian duo return after a decade with a follow-up that's equal parts worthy of and indistinguishable from its predecessor.
Excessive touring and a growing distance between the two caused the acrimonious dissolution of Death from Above 1979.
Trainwreck 1979, the lead single that ended Death From Above’s ten year recording hiatus last month, was almost custom built to engineer well-worn review phrases such as ‘immediately feels as if no time has passed’
Given the musical ground both artists covered in their time apart, Death From Above 1979 2.0 could have incorporated a multitude of sounds and styles.
Death From Above 1979 pick up right where they left off...uh, holy shit, 10 years ago.
Album review: Death From Above 1979 - The Physical World. See these songs in the flesh and bug out - it’s what they want...
The long-delayed second album from the Toronto duo fails to live up to their debut, writes <strong>Phil Mongredien</strong>
Death From Above 1979 new album 'The Real World' reviewed by Northern Transmissions. The album comes out on September 9th via Last Gang Records
Government Trash typifies DFA 1979’s approach: pummelling riffs played with big, ugly guitars and brattish vocals, writes <strong>Jon Dennis</strong>