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ITR 371EP
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"Brand new 7" from the incredible duo The Double. Their first release since their debut album Dawn Of The Double in 2016. The Double are Emmett Kelly and Jim White -- two dudes with resumes so massive it's not even worth bothering to try and drop names. For the recording session that produced this single they brought in bassist Matt Lux. The music The Double make is rhythmic, hypnotic and percussive. Says The Double of this new single, 'after the Dance Craze, we took off to go relax in the jungle with our buddy Matt Lux.' 400 copies made."
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ITR 295LP
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" 'Can you dance and meditate at the same time? Talking to one of The Double before a Brooklyn gig in the summer of 2014, I was told they were going to play a 'dance piece.' I wasn't sure how to take that, but it slowly began to make sense as I watched their stunning set. The music struck an odd balance between perpetual motion and perpetual stasis: the drummer, Jim White (Dirty Three, Venom P Stinger), maintained a modified Bo Diddley beat, switching between the snare and the toms after long stretches on each, while the guitarist, Emmett Kelly (Cairo Gang, Ty Segall & the Muggers), stuck steadfastly to an E chord. They took the underpinning of countless rock 'n' roll songs -- the rhythm section -- and decisively moved it to the foreground. It soon became clear that this wasn't going to be the average concert of discrete songs or pieces -- so the question then became how long they would sustain the groove for. The answer turned out to be 45 entrancing minutes. Maybe it could be likened to Rhys Chatham's 'Guitar Trio,' which also puts a rock 'n' roll backbeat to a droning, solitary chord, but The Double's vision of rock minimalism is more tied to both rock rhythm guitar and the drum's more traditional role in rock's invitation to dance. And unlike 'Guitar Trio' (or the '90s techno genre trance, for that matter), The Double didn't build up notes and rhythms until a breakdown section where the process started all over again; they went into it full bore and never let up.' --Alan Licht. [Brings] to mind Bo Diddley, Velvet Underground's 'Sister Ray,' Feedtime's 'Fastbuck,' Henry Flynt's Graduation LP of 'trancing and trucking music,' 75 Dollar Bill, Faust's 'It's A Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl' and even Rolf Harris's 'Sun Arise.' "
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CPR 719CD
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"The Double that you hear on Palm Fronds is very different than what founding members David Greenhill and Jeff McLeod originally conceived. The band began as a guitar/drum math-rock-cum-outre-blues duo replete with intricate time signatures, multiple song sections, and an overall sense of angular complexity. But the production, drum machines, and general vibe have a wonderfully overmodulated digital crunch, plenty of echo, broken electronics and all sorts of whatsit thrown into the mix. Which is to say that all that songwriter stuff, when The Double finally let you hear it, owes a lot to a bunch of digital dub and experimental electronic types."
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