Death From Above 1979 You're A Woman, I'm A Machine. Release Date : October 26, 2004. Label: Vice Records. Rating: Andy doesn't dig rating stuff. Augh the noise! It's really just a lot of noise. But it's structured. It's. So. Heavy. Two guys and soooo heavy. I hear the live effect kind of suffers because there's not enough bodies on the stage to create as much heaviness.... but on record it's bloody cool. The vocals are nothing to sneeze at, and even the general musicality of it is nothing to sneeze at - but it's SO HEAVY. Those guitars just attack your face. It's modern and new wavey without actually being new wavey. It uses those erratic keybord whizzes to create that feel, and you can picture androgynous hipsters bopping and robotting away to it - but the guitars give it an organic overtone - If you can say 'organic' about something so absolutely plugged-in. It's still a rock record, is what I'm getting at. Nothing much changes through the first three songs... loud, pummelling, rambunctious. "Go Home, Get Down" is cool... it's mostly the same as the rest of the songs but it has an interesting little breakdown before the chorus, and the background bloop is neat. Eloquent huh? "Blood On Our Hands" is pretty anthemic... clapping hands over your head. Okay "Blood..."'s cooler than "Go Home...." I can't stop moving....yeah everything is really similar. It's therefore unendingly cool, but even the guitar sounds exactly the same song to song. Decent job - I don't think this needs to branch out much more though, since it's absolutely a party record. It achieves the goal of moving some booty. The vocals in 6 get a drawlier kick. Oh I picture so much moshing jumping leaping and pandemonium at a show for this. 9 deterioriates into a set of scales near the end. Holy man "Pull Out" is a freak out. I love the 'push in' yelling. It's like a cat in a room fulla rockers. Or rockstars. You choose. That cat would be scared as shit either way. Ooh french on "Sexy Results." How did we get so sensual suddenly? Ah it's about sex, no wonder. This is pretty mmmrowr now. And there's disco handclaps in the background. That's fantastic. Good, loud disc. Song of choice : "Blood On Our Hands" -Andy Scheffler Elsewhere Death From Above 1979 website Published : March, 2005.