Death From Above 1979 Broke Up!
Blah!
Some excerpts from the latest update on their site:
“i know its been forever since i wrote anything on here. im sure by now most of you assume the band isnt happening anymore since there are no shows, no work on a new album, etc. well. 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.”
“over the last 3 years of touring, sebastien and i had grown apart to such an extent that the only real time we spoke was just before we would play and during interviews. we both changed so much that the people we were by the end of it, probably wouldnt have been friends if they were to meet for the first time again. its a totally normal function of growing up. like how your high school bf/gf that meant so much to you would probably be the last person you would date at 30, ya know? thats where we got to. its not sad.
it would be more sad if we stopped changing and growing and kept playing the same songs for 40 years like the rolling stones. for me that would be a nightmare.”
What a way to ruin my Friday night, although the Rolling Stones comment made me laugh.
R.I.P. DFA
August 4th, 2006 at 10:21 pm
FUCK. How the hell can they end on such a horrible album as “Romance Bloody Romance?!” I mean, “You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine” has to be one of my all-time favorite albums. UGH. Goddamn it…
Now Ratatat’s is my most anticipated sophomore record. Well, not to shit on Ratatat, but FUCK.
August 5th, 2006 at 3:19 am
Dude, Romance Bloody Romance wasn’t an album. That was all remixes. You suck.
August 5th, 2006 at 1:13 pm
I beg to differ, sir. I bought the two songs off of that ALBUM that weren’t remixes. “Better Off Dead” and “You’re Lovely (But You’ve Got Lots of Problems)”.