Of course there have been two-piece bands before: Simon and Garfunkel, the Chemical Brothers, the Carpenters, Sonny and Cher. But it's fair to say that none of these previous two-pieces have managed to make quite as much noise with as little instrumentation as Death From Above 1979. Death From Above 1979 are two friends who met in prison -- Jesse F. Keeler and Sebastien Grainger -- who live in a funeral parlor in Toronto. To hear them on record, it's hard to believe that the only instruments (with the exception of the odd flute sample or moog oscillation) are the bass and drums. "We wanted our band to be like an elephant in your living room," says Keeler, "that's why we gave ourselves trunks." As The Eye said, "This is your album -- whether you're a metalhead, suburban stoner, glue-sniffing gutter-punk, electroclash fashionista, new-wave spazz, hoodie skate-rat, indie-rock academic, geriatric Deep Purple fan, or whether you've just been jonesin' for an intelligent, uncompromising but accessible rock record..." - AMG