Loose In The Air

Their fatalist slow jams get more rickety as the minutes pass, but they're prettiest when they break down. [Sep 2005, p.109]

If you're a fan of the British installment of the Nuggets collection, this album was made for you. [Oct 2005, p.166]

Ever wonder what Interpol would sound like with a noize guy scuzzing up their high-tension tunes? [16 Sep 2005, p.87]

These periodic lapses of over-constraint are especially disappointing given the group's obvious talent for making spontaneous mid-air adjustments to their sound; but there's enough evidence here to be optimistic that one day soon the group will gain the swagger necessary to more consistently abandon themselves to their wilder sonic impulses.

The Double has a high ambition of making outré textures pop, but their obliqueness can walk a fine line between compelling and evasively wussy.

On Loose in the Air, the Double has attenuated the noise and cranked up the once-obscured songs. This may be bad news for the purists, but it’s a blessing for everyone waiting for a great record from this Brooklyn band.

The Double combine unsettling electronic noise with simple, enjoyable vocal hooks to create a rickety, rattletrap pop collage that's too undeniably ear-catching to ignore.

If anything really differentiates Loose in the Air from its predecessor, it's that the more conventional recording process has the band sounding a little less leftfield. This isn't necessarily a drawback because any oddness excised from Loose in the Air is exchanged for a new sense of synergy.