There is a foreboding sense of everything coming apart at the seams in The Double’s subversive take on pop music. Their Matador debut, Loose in the Air, is an eerie, paranoid album steeped in a hyper-awareness of the impermanence of things. Melody moves through thick layers of noisy, manic guitars and heavily distorted keyboards, and drums fight through a dense fog of melancholy. Tender vocals soar high and low through an atmosphere of chaos – it’s at once unsettling and utterly captivating.
The men of The Double are completely tuned into...
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