Double Trouble
These guys... I tell you what, the Double are really blowing up right about now. How have they done it? With extensive touring going on, playing dates with Mountain Goats, Go-Betweens and Comets On Fire, plus upcoming shows with M83 and John Vanderslice. Add to that their new full-length album, Loose In The Air coming out on big-indie Matador on September 13th. Oh, and they were fortunate enough to have gotten a Peel Session last year before John Peel's untimely death.
All this is a marked achievement for the Brooklyn-based four-piece - David Greenhill, Jeff McLeod, Donald Beaman and Jacob Morris - who've come a long way since their debut in 2002, and even their previous album, Palm Fronds (which came out last year on Catsup Plate Records) - their sound has grown and expanded across the spectrum, and is more pop then before, yet it is certainly as spooky and paranoid-sounding as ever. Their use of noise and feedback, improvisation and acceptance of human error and mistakes, help them achieve a truly special sound.
Loose In The Air really covers a lot of ground and is a fascinating listen through its ten tracks. Some songs, like this one, are feel like broken pop-rock, while others feel like Sufjan-esq multi-layered chamber-pop (see "Icy" and "Hot Air") - they offer up explosive, roof-lifting guitars, paired with delicate melodies, and wave upon wave of feedback. The most delicate and simple of the songs, instrumentation-wise, is "In The Fog," which was written for their Peel Session and re-recorded for the album, and it is is heartbreaking.
This is experimental rock that wants to party in your basement, then go out on the town. It's really quite something.
Check their site and Matador's for their tour-info, and if you're in NYC, why not swing by their free show on August 24th @ the South Street Seaport, Pier 17.