Before launching a solo career in 2008, Toronto native
Sebastien Grainger found an audience as the drum-playing vocalist of
Death from Above 1979. The group's sweaty mix of punk, hip-hop, and dance was chronicled on two albums (one of them a remix record) before
Grainger split with bandmate
Jesse F. Keeler in 2006.
Keeler went on to form
MSTRKRFT, while
Grainger tackled several new projects, the first of which saw him issuing dance singles under the alias "The Rhythm Method." He then signed with Saddle Creek Records as a solo artist.
Sebastien Grainger & the Mountains, an eclectic album recorded mostly by
Grainger himself, marked his solo debut in October 2008. ~ Andrew Leahey, All Music Guide