★★★★★
Sound: The first time I heard Death from above was when I was driving my car on a freeway. I remember the sudden urge to go way over the speed limit when I heard the song "Blood On Our Hands." So when I heard that the album was released two weeks prior, I made a detour to Tower Records. After a few good listens I realized I liked the band because its nasty rock you can dance too...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
While it's some days off being behind us, January 2011 will already mean something to many. There are those who will recall the month, a few more down the line, as containing the moment when a young British female artist actually bettered their award-winning debut (yes, you, ). Others will look back and cackle at all the turn-of-year tipped acts whose careers have careened rather sooner than expected...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-23
★★★★★
As part of the 679 recordings mini mafia Death From Above 1979 have probably had it easier than most. Sharing already acclaimed company such as The Streets, The Futureheads and The Secret Machines is the easy part, but making an album of the dominant primal intensity they have is totally different story, but one with which DFA 1979 have a panache for.Canadian duo Sebastien Grainger and Jesse F. Keeler, one part bass and one part drums, you do the math...
- www.gigwise.com
2010-11-09
★★★★★
The first listen didn't deliver the much-anticipated punch, but the second one did and this record has not relented since. T-O duo Jesse Keeler and Sebastian Grainger don't just do it hard and do it well, they do it only with drums, bass, synthesizer and vocals. Oh, it's plenty low-end without that guit, but the synth pounds out the highs, of which there are many, equalizing for exquisite disco noise rock results...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
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- spin.com
2010-08-25
★★★★★
If you're the type who enjoys blowing raspberries and flipping V signs at the noise police, buy this record right now. If you're not, then call them without delay.These are just some of the schisms you'll experience on listening to this record. It was quite tempting to throw it out the window by track two, but journalistic endeavour got the better of me.Death From Above 1979 are the Simon and Garfunkel of thrash punk. One of them drums. One of them plays bass. They both sing...
- www.musicomh.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
This Canadian duo's pulverizing power-metal assault is based on a literal and pleasingly boneheaded interpretation of drum & bass ? one guy bashes his kit without mercy (and contributes cat-in-heat vocals) while the other tortures his bass guitar (and sometimes a synthesizer) into making suggestively fat and sleazy noises. The general idea is to play as quickly and loudly as possible, and the results range from stupid to sexy to irresistibly stupid...
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
I don't get this. We listen to a Snoop or Lil Jon record--I do, anyway--and say, Yeah, the music is pretty good, but it's really no fun hearing women degraded that way, so the hell with those guys. Maybe if the funk is terrific (Cam'ron, or the new improved--and somewhat more mild-mannered--50) or the rhymes acute (Jay-Z, Ghostface), we let down our guard and try to hear how the other half feels. Otherwise no...
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10