Spazzy lo-fi cross genre punk.
Since mid 2005 we have played hundreds of shows mostly in Northern America but also in Canada, Australia, England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Spain, Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, France, Czech Republic and Austria.
With some awesome bands like...
Suicide, Spankrock, Ex Models, Matt and Kim, Melt Banana, Best Fwends, Japanther, Bonde Do Role, No Age, Dan Deacon, Drop the Lime, Girl Talk, Cex, Mecca Normal, Lifetime, XBXRX, BARR, Wolfmother, The Presets, Die! Die! Die!, Dirty Projectors, OCDJ, Ninja Sonik, Shoplifting, Mystery Jets, Bang Gang DJ's, Ghilain Poirier, The Bug, DD/MM/YYYY, Marnie Stern, Windom Earle, Clipd Beaks, PRE, Ecstatic Sunshine, Mika Miko, Meat Puppets, Celebration, Totally Michael, High Places, Team Robespierre, Juiceboxxx, Monotonix, Double Dagger, Ponytail, Abe Vigoda, Captain Ahab, Iron Lung, I Object, The Pharmacy, Teeth Mountain, Smarts, Abstract Artimus, Blood Baby, Jones, Video Hippos, Children Collide, Spider Vomit, Vincent Over the SInk, Deaf! Deaf!, XXXChange, Killer Whales, Pterodactyl, Neutral Mute, Battleship, Knyfe Hyts, Meneguar, Future Islands, Princess, Part Chimp, DMBQ, zZz, Show me The Pink, Madeline, Coconuts, Leslie and the Lys, Peelander Z, The Castanets, I Copy Your Copy, Holy Shit and many others...
We have just released our debut full length "Worldwide" on...
Counter Records (Ninja Tunes new rock inprint)
Out now everywhere!
U.K. / Europe and the U.S. through Ninja Tune.
Japan through Beatnik.
Australia through Inertia.
WE ARE PSYCHED.
Some footage of new tunes we've been working on.
Time for Livin!!
CLICK ON THE IMAGES TO BE DIRECTED TO THE NINJA TUNE SHOP.Available now is a beautiful etched 7", one side with "Around The World" and "Heard it all Before" and the other with our double tiger etched into the 7".
"MFDS" European/U.K. tour 7" available now. (super limited!)
Also grouped in the new Ninja Cut cuts 12" and CD with some crew I have so much respect for like Coldcut, Kid Koala, Ghislain Poirier, TTC and The Cinematic Orchestra.
US Booking /////////////// Sam Hunt
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International Booking /// Andy Duggan
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German Booking /////////
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Counter (Ninja Tune) /// Jonathan Shedletzky
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Publicity ///////////////// Jessica Linker(Pitch Perfect)
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Here are links to our previous releases.
Old CD Ep's ///////////// Morphius Records
US 7" /////////////////// VLXO / The Arm NYC
UK 7" //////////////////// Modular UK
JPN 12" //////////////////// Every Conversation
Canada 12" //////////////// We Are Busy Bodies
Australian Compilation ///// Modular
U.S. Compilation ///////////// Mauled By Tigers
I FINALLY PUT THIS BEAST UP... YOU CAN GET SHIRTS, CD'S,VINYL,BUTTONS AND OTHER STUFF AND LISTS OF ALL OUR RELEASES TO DATE!!!
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"Has the maximum-impact intensity of the young Henry Rollins in Black Flag or like an Iggy Pop for the era of samples and laptops. Worldwide is an extraordinary offering. The Death Set are a quixotic, perfect pop thrill." The Guardian
…DIY skuzzy, fuzzy lo-fi new wave analogue drum-box driven pop. Aggressively sweet, like sucking delicious boiled sweets and expecting the bits of glass. - Organ Magazine
"A relentless racket but of the highest order. Gleefully ballistic, a riot of chants, distortion and oddball samples." Q
“Sublime pop-punk brevity from Baltimore†Sunday Times
“They make the Libertines look like Dire Straits... Original, entertaining and fun.†Vice
“The Death Set blast out of Baltimore, and onto your stereo, if your any fun.†Drowned in Sound
"Has the momentum to engulf dancefloors the world over." Kruger
"Quite literally a blast. A twenty first century update of hardcore. The Death Set blast through their material as if they can hear the police sirens in the distance coming to close their party down." Clash
Derrida you can dance to. - The Onion (Austin).
"If the Cheerleading squad from a young offenders institute entered a beer bong-athon with Black Flag and Best Fwends, it'd still sound reserved compared to this lot." NME
…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 Blog
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
“Loud, abrasive and sickly fun, Black Flag for a new generation †Artrocker
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, But 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