Austinist: Austinist Album Review: Death From Above 1979's Romance Bloody Romance

lynn

Wed, 04 Jan 2006 12:49:58 -0600

hey girl your so sexi hehe whats going on man just chillen here

LP

Wed, 21 Dec 2005 17:23:11 -0600

Its available on vinyl, silly goose.

cindy hotpoint

Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:32:54 -0600

Hey, look at that I'm highly incoherent today. That last sentence is crap. I meant "very discrete parts of their agenda as a band." That sounds better. (:

Cindy Hotpoint

Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:30:07 -0600

Hell, if it is a lazy cash-grab, more power to 'em. I seem to remember seeing one with a rather adorable pregnant girlfriend/wife during SXSW. Nothing wrong with trying to make a little money in the music business while you can, you know? And, this is Vice we're talking about...so it probably WAS a lazy cash-grab. And, I don't know, seems to me that it's okay for them to tinker with their sound like that on a rmx album rather than on their sophomore effort. I like the idea that the album sound vs. the rmxes vs. the live show are all very discrete sounds.

truecraig

Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:05:36 -0600

I was not trying to say that I hated the thing. It has its moments. And the fact that they did some of their own remixing through MSTRKRFT tells me that they’re genuinely interested in tinkering with their own sound. But perhaps they should be doing that on a second LP instead of a quick-burn “remix & [2] b-sides” release. That’s all I was trying to point out. If I were less inclined to give a shit about this band, I would say the whole “remix” thing sounded like an uninspired, lazy cash-grab on the part of the artist and label. Even though I certainly hope that isn’t the case.

Cindy Hotpoint

Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:17:32 -0600

Huh. I really liked this album. The MSTRKRFT remixes are really great and dirty, and I especially liked the appearance of Final Fantasy. But whatevs. It takes all kinds. And, lest we forget, Bloc Party, a band with one album, also put out a rmx album this year. As did Beck, who has enough material to justify such a thing, I suppose? And don't forget that Interpol rmx EP. This is not some out of left field phenomena. And, btw, DFA 1979 played Emo's earier this year, before SXSW.

am

Wed, 21 Dec 2005 14:37:57 -0600

Making shitty music has never been easier. Welcome to the digital age!

sean

Wed, 21 Dec 2005 10:25:03 -0600

Goddamn, I just got this cd and I agree it blooooows. And not like "architects and blow-up dolls" blows, but just plain sucks. I like DFA 1979 but this remix album thing is getting out of hand. Like beck's Guerolito. Who the hell wanted that to be made. Damn scientologists. Bands: Please, don't remix or cover a song unless there was a) something wrong with it in the first place that kept it from reaching its potential, or b) you've got an interpretation that's at a complete right angle to the original. I guess that's all very subjective though.

john

Wed, 21 Dec 2005 08:18:32 -0600

I listened to this album a few weeks ago and was thouroughly disappointed. Some are good, most are horribly too "techno" for my taste, I don't know a lot about techno but it reminds me of something I'd see on E! Wild on Ibiza. After hearing the DFA cover on the Bloc party b-sides I'd rather hear DFA do an entire album of covers of other bands, not vice versa. I guess a second LP would work too...