
This performance of "Wind Phoenix" for KEXP, from Staten Island upstarts Cymbals Eat Guitars' buzzed about debut LP Why There Are Mountains , does well to capture their progress as a live band: the moments where the horizon-busting guitars and fluid, pulsing rhythms coalesce, moments where the lilt, fuzz and larynx-shredding squalls ring disjointed and flat. Maybe I'm still carrying the memory of seeing them twice in a week (once with the Antlers and White Rabbits at Bowery, and alone at Glasslands in Williamsburg two nights before), where I flipped all night between loving it and being [...]