DOUBLE AGENTS - Best Bits... So Far LP

Includes d/l code.

Highly recommended.

Stalwarts of the Melbourne pub-rock scene from 2000-2008, the Double Agents completed two blazing European tours, played voluminous shows with the likes of Dead Moon, Mudhoney, Celibate Rifles, White Stripes, Dirtbombs, Detroit Cobras, Spencer P. Jones, Kim Salmon, Thalia Zedek (Come), The Drones and released recordings on labels such as Spooky, Beast and Bruce Milne's In-Fidelity.

The band never aimed for a particular genre within the ‘rock’ realm, just so long as it was raw and from the gut. The sound veered from swamp-rock to rough-house garage-punk to dirty country twang to a lurching and lumbering brand of Aussie post-punk.

Think Stooges, Stones, Groovies, Cramps, Reigning Sound, Birthday Party and all points in between: The Double Agents were never trying to slot themselves into a patented stream of sound, but were about mixing up the palettes.

Two vocalists - female and male - two guitarists (with some lap steel thrown in, thank you), keyboards and a rocksteady rhythm section set them apart from the pack. Uniquely Australian and wildly powerful, they were sometimes fun, sometimes dark and moody, and always meant business.