The Double

Brooklyn's the Double serve up a unique mix of unsettling noise, loose-limbed rock, and singalong melodies. After recording their first album, 2002's folk-noise collision Loose Crochet, as a duo, the group expanded to its full lineup of vocalist/bassist David Greenhill, drummer/programmer <a href="spotify:artist:1TOu2DbjjRv2DSvj0U4KRF">Jeff McLeod</a>, keyboardist Jacob Morris, and guitarist/vocalist Donald Bearman. 2004's Palm Fronds, the band's first album as a quartet, featured more streamlined song structures as well as more electronic/musique concrète elements, thanks to a hand injury that prevented <a href="spotify:artist:1TOu2DbjjRv2DSvj0U4KRF">McLeod</a> from playing more conventional drums. That fall, the Double toured the U.K. with <a href="spotify:artist:5isqImG0rLfAgBJSPMEVXF">Blonde Redhead</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:3WaJSfKnzc65VDgmj2zU8B">Interpol</a> and recorded a Peel Session. Early in 2005, the band signed to Matador Records and began work on its third album with producer Steve Revitte, while making time for a South by Southwest appearance and a tour with <a href="spotify:artist:57dN52uHvrHOxijzpIgu3E">Ratatat</a>. Gigs with bands as disparate as <a href="spotify:artist:4HCubdy7diarb4KZo8etrq">the Go-Betweens</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:3hyGGjxu73JuzBa757H6R5">the Mountain Goats</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:369NbOi6NH1ThhB3gxFwqh">Comets on Fire</a> anticipated the fall release of Loose in the Air. ~ Heather Phares, Rovi