![]() Journalists got short shrift, too, and I fear the worst for this interview when they say they’ve come straight from the airport, jetlagged. They responded with an all-caps blitzkrieg: “FUCK DFA RECORDS FUCK JAMES MURPHY WE DECLARE JIHAD ON THEM HOLY WAR ENDING IN THIER DEATH AND DISMEMBERMENT.” In 2004, New York’s DFA Records sent them a cease-and-desist order, forcing them to add the “1979” to their name. It seemed typical of a band that, first time round, could be aggressive to the point of boneheadedness. ![]() When they first reunited, they refused interviews, leaving fans none the wiser about why they re-formed and what went wrong before. Today, the duo are not only back together, they’re in London pushing a second album, The Physical World, to be released on Tuesday, 10 years after their debut. Death From Above 1979 perform at the CMJ New Music Festival at CBGB’s, New York in 2004 Photograph: AS/Keystone USA/REX
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