(photo: Myspace) When your lead vocalist goes by the name Joseph Ferocious (nee D'Agostino) its hard not to sound as untamed and wicked as Cymbals Eat Guitars does. There's a debt to be paid to late 90s American indie rock, but Cymbals Eat Guitars aren't a tribute or covers band; instead they are crafting their own sound out of riffing guitars, blasting trumpets and dazzling pianos and keyboards, demonstrating their own ability to craft a new pop sound out of traditional instruments. The band is from Staten Island, [...]
If you are anything like me you probably haven't been listening to hip, blog-worthy music your whole life. Sam recently mentioned the great new pitchfork feature 5-10-15-20 which traces the evolution of artists musical taste. Off the top of my head mine would look roughly like this: 5 - music from Disney's Dumbo; 10 - meatloaf (poor parenting really); 15 - dashboard confessional; 20 - the music you have seen hear over the past couple of months. It was a transformative five years, to say the least. So it is not too hard to imagine that along the way I [...]
2009 is shaping up to be a banner year musically. Some selections from noteworthy recent releases: Fever Ray - Seven Sure, Sweden's The Knife may currently be "on hiatus", but for me Karin Dreijer Andersson's debut solo album as Fever Ray is The Knife's new album. Metric - Waves Although I really enjoyed Emily Haines' 2006 solo effort Knives Don't Have Your Back I've had high hopes for a new Metric LP for almost 4 years now. Released this Tuesday, [...]
While Pitchfork often plays games, hypes garbage, and panders to the crowds too much, they do sometimes nail it better than anyone and help deliver something truly special to a deserved appreciation. They weren't exactly the first to tout Cymbals Eat Guitars ' debut album, Why There Are Mountains , but blessing it with their "best new music" gold star has definitely put this band on the map. Since shortly after returning from SXSW, the album has not left my CD player in my vehicle. It truly is the best "indie road trip album" [...]
The overall problem with a list like this is trying to pluck a few gems out of a lot of gems. 2009 has been an excellent year for music so far, and there are stacks of amazing work that inevitably get the shaft. In our lengthy discussions last night about this year's albums of merit, I couldn't help but tense up a bit. For every ten albums we listen thoroughly to, there are probably another 5 or 10 that either get dumped or pushed to the side in favor of something else. This is problematic in the sense that we [...]
Been a bit quiet on the update front of late. I've been sick and a guy in work has buggered off to Oz for a couple of weeks so I've been run off my feet there too. So, to summarise: - Girl Talk in Andrews Lane Theatre was a whole bunch of fun and something akin to what I imagine a party in Skins is like. Still, would never listen to his music if I wasn't at one of his gigs. - Mogwai on the Saturday in the Academy were very, very good. [...]
I haven't been updating in the past few weeks due to what we call "breakdown season" here in university land. However, I certainly do not intend to abandon this blog, and recently several interesting things have occurred that I'd like to write about. 1. Actor Out of Work - St. Vincent The new St. Vincent album, Actor , leaked. I've been a big fan of Ms. Annie Clark since I encountered her debut album a few years ago. This time around she's as seductive as ever. Continuing to juxtapose strings, flutes, and [...]
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"Epic" is a well-worn adjective in the world of the music critic. Thankfully, I'm not a critic and have every right to use their semantics. So for the very first time, I'm using the term "epic" to describe a new release titled, Why Mountains Exist by the band Cymbals Eat Guitars - a wonderful four-person group out of New York. Although the release garnered only modest fanfare which, frankly, is part of the appeal, the album is fantastic and sure to turn a number of heads. The use of various sonic tricks has been utilized by [...]
Cymbals Eat Guitars is a Staten Island four-piece that plays some pretty sweet indie-rock. End generic intro. Their album "Why There Are Mountains" plays like a slideshow - each track has it's own flow, it's own personality, it's own definite chronological place, yet it retains the cohesion of a purpose-built album. The songs flow through valleys, high into peaks, and descend on the other side, guided by squealing guitars into a loopy haze (perhaps a literal interpreation of the album title?). I'm dropping two tracks today, representative of two different sounds. Spacey-keyboards start "Share" before giving [...]
Some banks are getting smashed up around the corner by a baying mob who have probably all taken the day off sick, so I'm not going to do any work either. Instead I'm going to lie back and listen to my two new favourite albums; by California's That Ghost and New York's Cymbals Eat Guitars . Young Fridays is the incredibly charming living, breathing sound that Ryan Schmale and his alias That Ghost rolled together during sunny bedroom sessions. On 'Never Have Fun', he becomes the lo-fi pop revival's newest Commander [...]
I often stay away from acts that Pitchfork has championed, in part because I don't want to boost their ego when they are right and because the band is probably getting enough exposure from P4K's endorsement anyway. On the other hand, there always seems to be some sort of resentment towards any new band that gets the title of "Best Music" from the site; the term "pitchfork-band" has become increasingly derogatory in describing acts like Vampire Weekend, Fleet Foxes and most recently Wavves (to a much smaller extent) that many seem to feel get by almost solely on the hype [...]
Türdeş ortamlarda her taraftan referansı sağlam olan "Cymbals Eat Guitars" sanıyorum harbici köfteci bağlamda son zamanlardaki en aşık olunası sahip vokallere sahip. Piçförk e küfür etme seanslarına katılasım da gelmiyor bazen, o da bir site işte, zevkler renkler, alaturka değil en azından bizim gibi. Birbirinin aynı türlü şapşal indie gruptan daha iyi olduklarını düşünmekteyim. "Why There Are Mountains" edinin ergen vokale gurban olun. thnkx divina for sharing ,derya kuzusu gibi deerhunter klonumuz var. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Like Blood Does Cymbals Eat Guitars @ [...]
There's a very funny website that Nialler brought to my attention recently called funnypicturesofbarackobama.com . I won't explain what it's about as you might be able to work it out from the cryptic clue contained in the url. Earlier, in the window of the Apollo gallery on Dawson street, I saw this would-be Irish addition to the online compendium of shit artistic renderings of the American President. While far from the awe-inducing crapola of the Obama-Tupac hybrid on the website, it has a certain grinning horror [...]
Synthesizer Shaikh : A one-man band that sounds kinda like Yeasayer on "The Rise". He tags it "some mix between electronic, psychedelic, and post-rock." He started making music in college on his computer with Ableton Live, and spent two years making/mastering his first full-length album, SamIAm . And he's not charging a penny for it. Get it here . "The Rise" "Colbert" I watch the Report a decent bit, but must have missed the episode where he announced a remix contest . This one [...]
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Cold Spring Why There Are Mountains, the self-released debut from this Staten Island quartet, is an album where every track is a field trip: full of carefully crafted songs that take their time to streamline a post-rock dynamic into something accessible, soothing and gratifying. A pleasant surprise with plenty to absorb. Buy MySpace Photo by darlyfurr , licensed under Creative Commons
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Cold Spring Why There Are Mountains, the self-released debut from this Staten Island quartet, is an album where every track is a field trip: full of carefully crafted songs that take their time to streamline a post-rock dynamic into something accessible, soothing and gratifying. A pleasant surprise with plenty to absorb. Buy MySpace Photo by darlyfurr , licensed under Creative Commons Posted in Song of [...]
from Why There Are Mountains (2009) Wind Phoenix (Proper Name) Living North
New Wax Besides being your one-stop shop for used furniture and creepy sexual encounters with strangers, Craigslist is apparently where you should go if you want to start a Pitchfork-heralded indie band. New York-based Cymbals Eat Guitars was assembled by lead singer/guitarist Joseph D'Agostino through an ad on Craigslist, and after more than a year of writing and recording, the band has graced us with an impressive debut album entitled Why There Are Mountains . It shouldn't take more than ten seconds of opening track "And The [...]
Helluva start to the year. Thank you Animal Collective for setting this shit in motion, starting the year off with a "Hey bitches, top this" sorta method. Well there definitely should be some competition. Between Phoenix's pop perfection, Dan Deacon maturing sound, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs dance album, and a barrage of new local LA acts surrounding me, 2009 will closer match the achieving heights of 2007 and not the depressive, lost 2008. 20: > Cymbals Eat Guitars - And The Hazy Sea Fuckin' Pitchfork. [...]
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