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'Rad Warerhouses Bad Neighborhoods'
Whilst originally forming in Sydney, TheDeathSet have traversed the world delivering their super high energy and memorable club punk spaz attack. Now based in Baltimore, America they have extensively toured in the DIY, punk and club circuits with a sound that uniquely attracts audiences in all those scenes. Utilising just two highly distorted guitars and microphones, with a third member being their post-casiotone, electronic club backing beats, they have left smiles and sweat on audiences throughout the world with their extensive touring.
They have shared stages with Spankrock, Suicide, Bonde Do Role, Wolfmother, Dan Deacon, No Age, Matt and Kim, Japanther, XBXRX, Best Fwends, Part Chimp, High Places and Die! Die! Die! to name just a few.
Listen to what the press has to say...
…DIY skuzzy, fuzzy lo-fi new wave analogue drum-box driven pop that comes over like a few more welcoming Bis. High Speed boingo boingo pop art tantrums and lots of attitude that they know they’re easily good enough to get away with. Aggressively sweet, like sucking delicious boiled sweets and expecting the bits of glass. - Organ Magazine
…i thought i ’d put you all up on the best live band in town, The Death Set. They’re a two-piece raging punk band with a drum machine and samples, and i’ll be damned if they don’t blow away 95% of the more high-fidelity acts i’ve seen this year, in either rock or dance music. – Mad Decent
Australia to Baltimore transplants The Death Set are a faster, poppier, punker and more straight forward Devo for 21st attention spans. Their debut Ep “to” is the giddiest wall bouncing sugar over dose that’s come my way in some time – going down like a mix of three balloons full of nitrous and three more o’ helium. Sticky speedy spazzy songs defined by tuneful high-pitched screaming distorted guitars and casios blasting over rigid mechanical beats. It’ll make you jump up and down and pound your head against the wall – New York Night Train
That is some kick-ass spazcore for lack of a better term – Gimme Tinnitus
Part AUSTRALIAN, but now living in BALTIMORE, THE DEATH SET, call everyone from DAN DEACON to MATT & KIM to SPANK ROCK to BONDE DO ROLE contemporaries. They are the second coming. – I Heart Comix
Earlier this week I received word about yet another exciting act who call Baltimore home. They're called The Death Set, and they have an album coming out next week via Morphius titled Rad Warehouses Bad Neighborhoods. It immediately caught my attention when I first turned it on, and I've found myself listening to it over and over again to shake cobwebs of dull music out of my ears. They sound like The Go! Team jacked up on Red Bull and meth. Basically, the antithesis of boring. – Covert Curiosity
The Death Set's two-man mini riot wield punky guitar smashing, panicky electro squawking, tinny drum machines and samples from old anti-drug videos -- then they smash seven shades of shit out of them against homemade mics, drench the product in sweat, saliva and sarcastic exuberance, and allow the results to stew in their own garishly vivacious pop expressionism. - Big Yawn
My goodness I’ve never come across a band that I so quickly fell in love with like I have The Death Set, This quick little 10-minute EP simply titled “to” has more substance and bizarre, attractive instrumentation and song writing than a lot of full lengths that run over an hour. – Rocknworld
Like Redd Kross rewired for a generation raised on cracked software and internet attenuated attention spans. Death Set’s rattlin, tinny drum machines, ray-gun guitars and walkie talkie fidelity vocals are the reason moms everywhere restrict their sugar intake - Baltimore City Paper
Sitting nervously somewhere between the outrageous, manic pop of Japanese bands like the Polysics, the thrashing, eccentric beehive of bands like the B52’s and Apples in Stereo, the genderless cyber punk of acts like Sigue Sigue Sputnik and the post-punk chik of The Rapture, the Death Set spit, growl and bomb their way into the headlights of an oncoming chart vehicle. – Crud magazine
…you know those big arcade dancing games? Okay, you know how they have games like that, nut instead of dancing, you play those novelty guitars? That’s what they were like. That, with gangsta rap beats. I’m dead serious. - Razorcake - Lifetime show review
Live footage from Brooklyn Glasslands show, New York City. (Click the image for the YouTube video)