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![]() ![]() For starters, they never occupied the same place in the zeitgeist: Though they’ve drifted towards a straight rock style, they first made a splash with a metallic hybrid of punk and dance music that has more in common with experimental post-hardcore groups like The Blood Brothers, These Arms Are Snakes and others who proliferated in the early- to mid-2000s.Īnd though Death From Above 1979’s instrumentation consists of just vocals, bass, drums and keyboards, they tend to employ those instruments for maximalist effect. Where popular two-person outfits like The White Stripes and Black Keys distill music down to its most basic building blocks on a quest to capture the pure essence of rock and roll (whatever that means), Death From Above 1979 are a different animal altogether. If Death From Above 1979 give off the appearance that they make stripped-down music simply because there are only two people in the band, the size of their sound indicates otherwise. ![]()
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