21st Century Art releases 2nd SECRET AGENT album, [REDACTED] with EX-PSYCHEDELIC FURS and ‘TIL TUESDAY MEMBERS.

Shadowy International organization SECRET AGENT invites you to experience an album like no other—a movie you watch with your ears, meticulously crafted with the intensity of a covert mission. A mind-bending rush of electronica, psychedelia, lounge and post-punk, all mixed up like double agents in a vat of piranhas.

Their second release, whose title is [REDACTED], has infiltrated the online streaming platforms in over 190 countries, alongside their 2020 album, DECLASSIFIED (Mi5/UMG). Special guests again include Duncan Kilburn (ex-Psychedelic Furs) and Robert Holmes (ex-Til Tuesday).

Written, produced, performed, mixed, mastered, and declassified by Bureau Director Frank Coleman, on his own 21st Century Art label, the project is an explosive blend of high-energy music, hardboiled dialogue, and postmodern conceptual art, treating sound as a canvas, reaching for a hybrid genre, like a graphic novel in audiobook form.

“I used the grammar of film in making music, and assembled the scenes from scraps of dialogue, like a ransom note,” says Coleman. “It’s not a puzzle to be solved. It’s a puzzle to be puzzled over. It’s more than the sum of its parts. There’s lots of room for interpretation.”

With its exciting mix of infectious rhythms, widescreen soundscapes, and sly, sardonic sound bites from 1960s Eurospy films, [REDACTED] is a bold sonic journey that challenges the listener to engage fully in an immersive world of mystery and danger – that rocks! The “Secret Agent Theme Song” is the first single, a Saturday morning cartoon anthem, turned up to 11.

“On DECLASSIFIED, I set out to make an album that was explicitly not a rock album, but had that rock energy,” continues Coleman. “[REDACTED], on the other hand, once again goes globetrotting, but it is definitely a rock album.”

It is not casual listening. These are not casual times.

Underlying the satire, it’s a call to renew long-trampled ideals of freedom and justice, casting light in an increasingly shadowed world. Dive into the darkness, and let [REDACTED] reveal its secrets. Will you accept the mission?

Available on Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, Instagram/Facebook, TikTok & other ByteDance stores, YouTube Music, Amazon, Pandora, Deezer, Tidal, iHeartRadio, Claro Música, Saavn, Boomplay, Anghami, NetEase, Tencent, Qobuz, Joox, Kuack Media, Adaptr, Flo, and MediaNet.