The Physical World review – past glories recalled by Death From Above 1979

In the mid-00s, Toronto bass/drums duo Death From Above 1979 earned plenty of attention with their superior dance-punk stylings and juvenile but entertaining spats with LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy but then split before translating acclaim into sales. Their first album since 2004's You're a Woman, I'm a Machine finds them largely picking up where they left off, with Jesse Keeler's throbbing, distorted bass to the fore. The likes of Crystal Ball and Trainwreck 1979 are delivered tautly enough to recall past glories but there's little that sounds noteworthy. While by no means a bad album, this fails to stand out in the way its predecessor did.