Depending on what day of the week you’re asking, Death From Above 1979 either met at a youth concert, in prison or at a club. “We met on a pirate ship,” said singer/drummer Sebastien Grainger with a mischievous grin. “I liked the sword in his hand, and he liked the knife in my mouth.”
Take two elicits a slightly less exaggerated tale: “We met on the street in Toronto on a summer day,” Grainger said. “[Bassist Jesse Keeler] was wearing nice pants and his hair was combed and for the longest time I didn’t think that he would grow facial hair because he was clean-shaven.”
Whatever the truth may be, clean-shaven the shaggy twosome are not. And perhaps their fabrications stem from the many misconceptions and preconceived notions about the Canadian noise-rock duo. Put it this way: Everything you assume about DFA ’79 is wrong. MORE