Death from Above 1979 Announce New Album Private Lives, Push Fall Tour to 2027

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2026 — Here's a refreshingly honest admission you don't hear from bands every day: Death from Above 1979 booked an album tour before they'd stepped foot in a studio. So the Canadian noise-rock duo is doing the grown-up thing — postponing the fall 2026 run to February and March of 2027, buying themselves the time to, in their words, "put the final touches on our new music and prepare to share it."

The new album, as it turns out, has a name, a date, and a tracklist. Bassist Jesse F. Keeler and vocalist Sebastien Grainger have officially announced Private Lives, out January 29 via Last Gang / MNRK — their fifth full-length and the record the postponed tour was always meant to support. The title track is out now as a single, accompanied by a music video starring actor Kim Bodnia.

The explanation came on September 22, when the duo posted on social media: "When we booked our fall 2026 tour, we wanted it to be an album tour, yet we hadn't stepped foot in a studio." By delaying to 2027, they added, "We can put the final touches on our new music and prepare to share it." Fans now have to wait a few extra months — but the payoff is a tour built around finished music instead of wishful thinking.

What's off, what's on

The tour had been due to start on October 1. That run is now scrapped — the struck dates include Sacramento (Ace of Spades, October 1), Berkeley (UC Theater, October 2), Monterey (Golden State Theater, October 3), San Luis Obispo (Fremont Theater, October 4), Ventura (Ventura Music Hall, October 6), Los Angeles (The Belasco, October 8), Santa Ana (Observatory, October 9), San Diego (Observatory, October 10), Tempe (The Marquee, October 11), and Denver (The Gothic Theater, October 13), with Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Chicago, London, Toronto, Buffalo, Montreal, Quebec City, Boston, Brooklyn, Washington, and Pittsburgh dates also pulled from the calendar.

The replacement itinerary keeps the spirit of the original while expanding the Canadian footprint. The 2027 leg runs February through March: Tempe (Feb 2), San Diego (Feb 4), Los Angeles (Feb 5), Santa Ana (Feb 6), Ventura (Feb 9), Sacramento (Feb 10), San Francisco (Feb 11), Waterloo's Maxwells (Feb 24), Toronto's History (Feb 25), London Music Hall (Feb 26), Ottawa's Bronson Centre Music Theatre (Feb 27), Montreal's Théâtre Beanfield (March 1), Quebec City's Imperial Bell (March 2), Boston (March 3), Brooklyn's Warsaw (March 5), Philadelphia's Foundry (March 6), Washington's Howard Theatre (March 7), Pittsburgh's Thunderbird Music Hall (March 8), Denver (March 15), Chicago's Thalia Hall (March 17), St. Louis' Old Rock House (March 18), Minneapolis' Fine Line (March 19), Winnipeg's Park Theatre (March 20), Red Deer's Bo's Bar & Stage (March 22), Edmonton's Midway (March 23), Calgary's Palace Theatre (March 24), Vancouver's Vogue Theatre (March 26), Victoria's Capital Ballroom (March 27), Portland's Revolution Hall (March 29), and Seattle's Crocodile (March 31).

The original Canadian dates — Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, London, Toronto, Montreal, and Quebec City — all survived the move. The new leg adds four Canadian cities that weren't on the fall itinerary: Waterloo, Ottawa, Red Deer, and Victoria.

Tickets and refunds

The band's website spells out the refund terms plainly: "Refunds will be available for 30 days (deadline OCT 22th 2026) on rescheduled shows after which time tickets will transfer over to the new date. Any total cancellations should be refunded at your point-of-purchase." (Yes, the site's "OCT 22th" is a typo — the deadline is October 22, 2026.) "See you soon soon soon!"

So the rule is simple: if you held a ticket for a rescheduled show and don't want to wait until 2027, you have until October 22 to get your money back. After that, your ticket automatically transfers to the new date. Dates that were canceled outright rather than rescheduled are refunded at the point of purchase.

The record: Private Lives

The postponed tour now has a centerpiece. Private Lives, due January 29 via Last Gang / MNRK, is the fifth Death from Above 1979 album — and the title track single, out now with its Kim Bodnia-starring video, is the first taste. The tracklist runs ten deep: "Private Lives," "Escape from Steeltown," "Mystery (feat. CSS)," "Hi Lo," "Put Up/Shut Up," "Dreams," "Drunk in Tokyo," "Like My Ex Did," "TV Don't Talk Back," and "Late Stage Liberal."

There's a lot to read into those titles, if you're inclined — "Late Stage Liberal," "TV Don't Talk Back," "Drunk in Tokyo" — but the duo has always let the volume do the talking. What we know for sure: this is a band that refused to play an album tour without an album, and took the harder, honest road instead. That's the kind of admission that buys a band a lot of goodwill.

A duo that keeps going

Death from Above 1979 — Jesse F. Keeler on bass and keys, Sebastien Grainger on vocals and drums — have been at this since the early 2000s, with a career defined by breaks and returns. They broke up in 2006, reunited in 2011, and have been steadily releasing music since, never losing the serrated edge that made them one of the most ferocious live acts of their era.

This isn't a farewell — it's a recalibration. The tour moves from October 2026 to February–March 2027, the album gets its proper finish, and nobody has to pretend. As the band put it: "See you soon soon soon!"

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