Often a rhythm part of bass and drums holds the spine of a band. Within the case of Loss of life from Above 1979, the bass and drums comprise your entire band. The duo by no means significantly thought-about increasing its ranks.
Sebastien Grainger doubles because the band’s vocalist and drummer. Jesse F. Keeler flat-picks his bass like a heavy-riffing guitar. As such, including a guitar could be as redundant as including one other vocalist or drummer.
Grainger and Keeler fashioned Loss of life from Above 1979 (also referred to as Loss of life from Above) in 2001 in Toronto, Ontario. The duo launched a debut album, You’re a Lady, I’m a Machine, in 2004 and cut up in 2006. The duo reformed in 2011 and resumed writing and recording new work. The band launched its fourth and most up-to-date album, Is 4 Lovers, in 2021.
On stage on the Music Corridor of Williamsburg, the present began with a primal-sounding drumbeat, ushering in a deep and distorted bass line. After a number of repetitions, Grainger launched a vocal melody, singing cleanly and loudly to dominate the underlying sonic thrust. Even when the singing gravitated to shrieks and bellows, nonetheless, there was no escaping the arduous crunch of the ultra-thick bass strains and the crashing of the percussion. Keeler sometimes moved to a keyboard and synthesizer, however for a lot of the present he was selecting thunderous riffs on his bass.
All through its profession, journalists have categorized Loss of life from Above as dance-punk, noise punk, and punk rock, however the efficiency didn’t sound even remotely like what one would affiliate with these genres. Loss of life from Above’s music is a type of arduous rock. Of the various bass-and-drum bands at present, together with Royal Blood, El Ten Eleven, Japanther, Brick + Mortar, and others, Loss of life from Above’s music is among the many coarsest and grittiest (i.e.: Bangladeafy stands out as the crudest-sounding of this style). Loss of life from Above’s distinctive attraction on this night time was the steadiness between the vocal melodies and the sheer uncooked energy of its efficiency. This music took headbanging to the following degree.
