Tell us, Cymbals Eat Guitars . Why are there mountains? To climb, and play seven-minute jams atop, obviously. On their debut album, the New York band dabbles in early Pavement's frantic guitar spasms and an airier prettiness more in line with late '90s Britpop acts - often in the same song. Their fresh handling of loud-quiet-loud is commendable, as is their willingness to stretch their songs past the 6-minute mark even as they cut off a number of tunes at a terse 2 minutes. It's a pastiche, sure, but a chaotic and winning one. As like-minded, undersung Rawkblog favorites [...]
I guess there is only so many times you can go to the well and come back with something thirst quenching. The template as espoused by Cymbals Eat Guitars is one that Stephen Malkmus had drawn up a decade previously yet Joseph D'Agostino has dreamed up a thousand new ways to make it sound fresh and exciting. ‘Why There Are Mountains’ has been knocking around chez hugger for almost a year at this
Cymbals Eat Guitars waste little time letting people know they are the real deal on their debut album Why There Are Mountains ...
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If you've ever traveled across northern Ohio and Indiana, you have undoubtedly found out that one's mindset goes through the following: tacet acceptance > undeserved/inexplicable excitement > borderline nervous breakdown > unmitigated glee. Cymbals Eat Guitars' Why There Are Mountains perfectly mirror this experience - ironically so since there are no mountains between Cleveland and Chicago. Their music walks the fine line between anarchic cacophony and pure pop bliss. Swelling noise and feedback peel away to pop hooks which ultimately roll into unruly crescendos where you think the song will literally break down, but it doesn't. Instead it pulls [...]
photo credit: ecstaticist Nicht nur Herrn Zeier sondern auch der NZZ gefiel's bei David Byrne: http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/ kultur/zuercher_kultur/grossar tiges_comeback_eines_kuenstler isch_abgeschriebenen_1.2432659 .html Die Yeah Yeah Yeahs haben sich bei einer BBC 1-Studio-Session filmen lassen: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/za nelowe/ RCRD LBL hat frische exklusive mp3s und eine ausführliche Biographie zu den New Yorker Geräuschmusikern Cymbals Eat Guitars: http://rcrdlbl.com/artists/Cym bals_Eat_Guitars/track/Some_Tr ees_Merritt_Moon Und Bob Dylan erklärt im Interview sein neues Album und sich selbst. http://www.bobdylan.com/#/conv ersation Wann kommt denn endlich [...]
Monday, April 20, 2009 Today's Quick Mention: Just in case you don't follow me on Twitter, during Record Store Day I snatched up the Cursive/Ladyfinger 10" picture disc, the Lykke Li/El Perro Del Mar split 7", the two new LPs from Mono and Crystal Antlers and last year's School Of Seven Bells effort. Missed out on the Thao/Thermals split 7" though, which bums me out. What did you guys get? Now for a audible high five. Enjoy. : Deerhunter - Rainwater Cassette [...]
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Wind Phoenix. Once again we have a band with a terrible name, but at least the album art is good this time around. And you know, in these uncertain times, who has the time to listen to a band with a shitty band name? Apparently I do. Apparently I'm willing to forgive and forget, to overlook a minor transgression in the name of pushing things forward. Listen, we're all in this thing together, so the least we can do is help each other out, spend a little time together. And here we have Cymbals Eat Guitars....
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Ein Album als Soundtrack zur Alpenfaltung? Klingt nach Hirngespinst, doch nicht nur der Titel deutet darauf hin. Cymbals Eat Guitars könnten in den nächsten Jahren tatsächlich Berge versetzen. Der erste Aufprall ist laut, sperrig und doch anmutig genug, das Eis sofort zu brechen. Einige Momente der Stille folgen, um dann die angestaute Spannung innerhalb von Millisekunden zu zersprengen. All das schaffen die New Yorker bereits in den ersten 6 Minuten ihres Erstlings Why There Are Mountains mit einem der bisher sicher bedeutungsvollsten Songs des Jahres And The Hazy [...]
New York’s Cymbals Eat Guitars self-released debut Why There Are Mountains screams of better days for indie rock. At its best moments, it is reminiscent of The Lonesome Crowded West , You Forgot It In People and Perfect From Now On. At its barest, it’s still an ambitiously crafted debut by a band that sounds seasoned well beyond its years. It’s strangely proverbial, yet oddly novel in its own right. One listen to WTAM and it’s clear that Cymbals Eat Guitars are not wide-eyed 20-somethings playing with their high [...]
Streamable: Various Songs Live @ WFMU (daily motion) by Mi Ami (props to the FADER ) Streamable: Pink Sabbath (vimeo) by Dananananaykroyd mp3 BONUS: Pink Sabbath (mp3) Streamable: Don't Shoot (vimeo) by Devo Streamable: Don't Lie (vimeo) by Abe Vigoda mp3 BONUS: Don't Lie (mp3) [...]
So the other week I did this on a Friday, but this week I decided to do it on a Thursday just because I can't contain my excitement anymore on these fun videos I have to share with you. In no order other than the logical whatever comes to my mind first as I write this post: First we have that Cymbals Eat Guitars band whose star is surely on the rise. Since I first started spinning their phenomenal debut [...]
SI indierockers, Cymbals Eat Guitars are the latest band to get a song stuck in my head. Take a listen, it'll be there all day. Enjoy... Downloadable: And The Hazy Sea (mp3) Amazon MP3 page is here . eMusic page is here . And I didn't even bring up the Lou Reed / Velvets reference. You can pick up a physical copy of the album at Other Music .
I find it quite amusing that girls console other girls by suggesting to dance. I mean, I'm all for some erotic grinding with the same sex, but probably not after having an emotional breakdown. I'm just not that attractive when I'm having an emotional breakdown. So I'm 8 months in. London that is. Thoughts? Well, I've deducted that 91% of the English population (located in london), are alcoholics. Of course the 8% includes me, and those in comas. Personally, I have nothing against drinking, but being surrounded by drunks at 5pm, can be quite irritating. A. I prefer not being [...]
Via Forkcast : Recent Best New Music-laureates Cymbals Eat Guitars played New York's Cake Shop earlier this week and played a few tracks from Why There Are Mountains . Their self-released debut, Why There Are Mountains is out now. But it from iTunes, Amazon MP3 , or Rough Trade . MP3: Cymbals Eat Guitars - And the Hazy Sea MP3: Cymbals Eat Guitars - The Living North [...]
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by neil roberts For the past week I've been meditating every morning, first thing when I wake up. It's helping create a clarity through which creativity freely flows. The winds of change are blowing through the newly blooming trees. Here's something a draftsman I know sent me today about change. Be sure to check out our show recommendations, and change up the week you thought you were going to have. "An analysis of the history of technology shows that technological change is exponential, contrary to the common-sense 'intuitive [...]
Everyone loves the idea of discovering the next big thing, but for every significant find, there are countless false alarms. When chatter started to build around the blogosphere about unsigned newcomers Cymbals Eat Guitars, I had enough on my plate and figured that a couple weeks would be enough time to let the buzz die down a bit. Of course, the buzz didn’t die down; it escalated quickly, with stellar reviews pouring in and comparisons to Modest Mouse, Pavement, and Built to Spill being thrown about with abandon. So I arrived a little late to the party, but I quickly [...]
Cymbals Eat Guitars | Cake Shop | April 12, 2009 Why There Are Mountains , the new record from Cymbals Eat Guitars, was recently bestowed with the honor of "Best New Music" by Pitchfork . So why did the crowd at Cake Shop on Sunday night feel so sparse? Maybe it was in because of the competition from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs at Santos Party House or maybe it was just because it was Easter Sunday. But as a burgeoning blogger, I hope it's just that Pitchfork [...]
(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, [...]
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