
Luckily for anyone who wanted another album that rocked as hard as Woman/Machine, Physical World is another passionate blast of pure rock & roll, full of electric energy and flying sweat. Such a long break and the inevitable creep of age might have led to the guys mellowing out, becoming introspective, or even worse, forgetting how to rattle windows and loosen teeth with their furious assault of four-string riffs, thunderously loud drums, and ripped-from-the-guts vocals. In late 2010, the duo reconciled and began playing shows again, which led to their second album, The Physical World.

The two didn't speak for years, explored other projects ( Keeler with MSTRKRFT and Grainger with a string of excellent power pop albums) and seemed to have moved on completely, though the band's fans never did. Excessive touring and a growing distance between the two caused the acrimonious dissolution of Death from Above 1979. Keeler and drummer/vocalist Sebastien Grainger became victims of their own success. After releasing maybe the most explosive hard rock album of the early 2000s with You're a Woman, I'm a Machine, the duo of bassist Jesse F.
