Blog: Aural Enjoyment

From the singing/drumming half of Death from Above 1979 , we get Sebastien Grainger's first solo output. When first hearing he had a solo project in the works, skeptics (including myself) were worried that he'd be stripped of everything that made DFA1979 so fun. They were a band that lent themselves equally appropriate for morning jogs and drunken dance parties. This, with the exception of the recently-departed The Faint , is not the M.O. for Saddle Creek. Calming my fears, Grainger's solo outing does not find him with an acoustic guitar, quietly strumming sappy songs of love, loss, [...]

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