WINNER BEST INSTRUMENTAL BAND OF 2002,
L.A. WEEKLY MUSIC AWARDS

It's a tall order to encapsulate the city's diverse musical acts in one night, but the L.A. Weekly Music Awards came close...celebrating the cream of the crop...expansive surf-meisters Double Naught Spy Car.
--Natalie Nichols, L.A. Times


All-instrumental combo Double Naught Spy Car aren't easy to classify. They're not simply surf 'n' drag practitioners or lounge artists -- they're too freewheeling for that. Nor are they purely jazz-heads -- their songs are too structured. Their music draws from a variety of genres they've made seamlessly their own. Danger High is the long-awaited follow-up to their 1998 debut, Comb in Blue Water, and like its predecessor, it shows Spy Car to be the bosses of instrumental music in a "roots noir" vein, but the addition of ace drummer Joe Berardi to the band makes them sound even better.

Spy Car's music is ever more ambitious and complex, rife with tempo changes and varied textures, yet it's always do