You’re A Woman, I’m A Machine is Death From Above 1979’s first album. The Canadian duo based in Toronto is Sebastien Grainger (vocals and drums) and Jesse F. Keeler (bass and synth), which have among their influences Deep Purple and Chic (those who wrote freak out indeed).

How to define this album? Let’s do this: take a good handful of various hardcore Punk, a dash of Britpop, a taste of Black Flag, Jesus Lizard and MX80sound, a touch of 70’s disco-soul (especially for the drums) along with vocals sometimes pop sometimes Britpunk, all played by a distorted bass, vocals, drums and some coloring synth; shake well and serve on your player at your own risk.

Here it is!

You got the album we are talking about, an fiery bomb, intelligent, non-trivial but above all a must have to be played old school: very loud; to pogo, to dance, to sing, to turn on fire, basically do whatever you want with it. The only thing I wouldn’t do is play it in the car, you might speed too much.

Included there also Black History Month, but not the successful remixed version by Alan Braxe & Fred Falke that was largely aired on radios and clubs, but the much more biting original one. This is at my opinion one of the best 2004 album.

Buuuuuuuuuuuuuyyyy it! Cause it might be their only record (the other album Romance Bloody Romance 2005 collects remixes and b-side of some YAWIAM’s tracks) because according to JFK on their official site they’ve broken up in August 2006, but should we believe it?

Mario (Ottobre 2006)   translation by Barbara Burgio

TRACKLIST:
1. Turn it out
2. Romantics rights
3. Going steady
4. Go home get down
5. Blood on our hands
6. Black history month
7. Little girl
8. Cold war
9. You’re a woman, I’m a machine
10. Pull out
11. Sexy results