Death From Above 1979 "Romantic Rights EP" LP OOP EX MSTRKRFT Vice

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Death From Above 1979 "Romantic Rights" EP 12" Sound Virus (Canada)

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Death from Above 1979 are a Canadian rock duo from Toronto, Ontario. The duo consists of Sebastien Grainger(vocals, drums, percussion) and Jesse F. Keeler (bass guitar, keyboards, backing vocals). Their first full-length album,You're a Woman, I'm a Machine, was released in late 2004 on Last Gang Records. The band broke up in 2006, but announced a reunion in 2011. Their second album, The Physical World, was released in September 2014.

Early career

Death from Above 1979 consists of Jesse F. Keeler on bass, synths, and backing vocals, and Sebastien Grainger on vocals and drums. They were signed to Last Gang Records for the world with license arrangements with Vice Recordings in the U.S., 679 Recordings in the UK, and JVC in Japan. Although they reportedly met at a Sonic Youth concert, they sometimes jokingly claimed to have met in prison, on a pirate ship, or in a gay bar, leading some journalists and fans to believe these stories. They also claimed to have once lived in a funeral home.

In 2005, the video for "Blood On Our Hands" won a VideoFACT award at the MuchMusic Video Awards. They played "Romantic Rights" on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, with Grainger drumming for the first half of the performance and Late Night's Max Weinberg on the same drum set for the second. The band was originally named "Death from Above", a name which appears on their second recording, Romantic Rights. The duo changed their name after a legal dispute with dance music label DFA Records.

The reason for the seemingly arbitrary date 1979 comes from Grainger's birth date. He responded to being asked why they chose it: "1979 is the year of my birth, 1979 is the year of Off the Wall, 1979 is the year of The Pleasure Principle, 1979 is the last year of the last cool decade, 1979 is scratched into my arm, 1979 is scratched into my arm, 1979 is scratched into my fucking arm." He also stated in an interview given to MTV: "I was born that year, and it's never going to be wrong."

It was speculated that the seemingly random year came from Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film Apocalypse Now, as the words "Death from Above" can be found on a logo on the Huey Helicopters that carry the main character and his crew in the Vietnam War. However, Grainger has asserted that this is simply a coincidence.