Death From Above 1979 will release a new album later this year – a decade on from the debut ‘You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine‘.
The duo’s split was confirmed by Jesse Keeler in 2006 when he wrote on the band’s official website: “I wanted to let you know that your assumptions are correct. We decided to stop doing the band. Actually we decided that almost a year ago. We finished off our scheduled tour dates because there were good people working for us who relied on us to make a living and buy Christmas presents and pay rent etc.”
Their subsequent 2011 live reunion is to now result in ‘The Physical World‘. “No matter what Jesse and I do, on whatever scale of success it’s sat on, there’s always some kind of reference to Death From Above,” Sebastian Grainger has told NME.
“It’s only frustrating because it’s so lazy. So we’re putting out a Death From Above record and if the press is like, ‘It’s not what we expected,’ or however they react to it, it’s like, ‘Well, you’ve been fucking asking for it’.”
The album has been produced by the Oasis and Nine Inch Nails cohort Dave Sardy and is due out in September.