This spring will see the return to teenage promises when South Florida scene veterans, The Agency debut their 10-song CD, “Turn” on South Florida indie imprint Perch Records.The release chronicles love, loss and leaving in heartfelt vignettes that the Agency has worked at perfecting since bonding over Rush covers at Miami Sunset Senior High School.

Growing up in the cohesive, oftentimes incestuous local music scene, Drummer/vocalist Mike Marsh, (Dashboard Confessional, Seville) guitarist Klaus Ketelhohn and bass player/vocalist, Chris Drueke (Seville) have played music together, in one form or another, for the better part of a decade. The band sprouted from the same small Petri dish of talent that included Chris Carrabba, Further Seems Forever, John Ralston, Seville, the Vacant Andys and others. In the early years, The Agency played from 1995 until 2001 without stop before going on hiatus. They continued on as a side-project for many years with on-again/off-again breaks between Mike Marsh’s hectic touring schedule with Dashboard Confessional which including 600 shows in two years time. The Agency doesn’t operate on a normal timeline that many bands do and instead has developed organically when possible. Now, the band is a fully realized endeavor for all three members. Mike Marsh sums up the band’s eternal magnetism, “The Agency is going to always be a band because of friendship and a chemistry that is hard to stay away from for too long. We have stayed friends through a lot of bad decisions and made records that we are proud of through even tougher times."

Recording, mixing and working on tracks since late 2004, Turn shows tremendous growth for all of the Agency’s players. Tracks bounce in many forms musically, hinting at chant-worthy power pop, tight and quick-pulsed indie rock, and introspective, well-versed storytelling in the vein of well-worn Jawbreaker LPs and Ben Folds.

Carrying critic’s expectations in tow from the emotive balladeer quality of Dashboard Confessional, Mike Marsh’s own songs show just as much heart-on-the-sleeve, sword-in-the-hand promise. From the opening track, “Walking Disaster” The celebration of everyday love is shining bright with imperfections when Mike urges, “Let’s get desperate again. I want to see everything I’ll be. Let’s climb the walls for all we haven’t seen. We all want to be loved without a perfect frame so let’s give everyone who’s not anyone a name.”

Turn will be the Agency’s third release following 1997’s Rock to the Apocalypse and 1999’s Engines on Fiddler records.

Perhaps it’s the unlikeliest of tracks that could sum up where the band is headed next. On “Everything is Mine,” an ode to stealing quickly becomes words for any band to live by. “Barely awake for the drive; everyone seems barely alive. My sweaty hands are combing my hair back to see the things in front of me. I’m barely thirteen and I think that everything should be mine.”