This one’s a straight-up Staff Pick for the Street Date crew. The Cymbals Eat Guitars CD came from out of nowhere at the office and now has everyone’s head nodding.
Coming straight outta Staten Island (who knew?), they rock hard but with hooks and sing-along lyrics that have their live shows starting to kick a$$.
Check this out – Cymbals Eat Guitars performing live in the KEXP studios in Seattle – this is “Wild Phoenix.”
REVIEW OF REVIEWS
But few bands kick it grander than Cymbals Eat Guitars, a Staten Island four-piece whose self-released debut, Why There Are Mountains, was picked up for wider release following a review on Pitchfork and pavement-pounding by the guys to get it in stores. There’s a reason why “mountains” is in the album title: Cymbals Eat Guitars don’t do songs that represent feelings; their widescreen songs evoke snow-capped mountains, wide, empty fields, rain pouring in a forest, and thunder clapping above volcanoes.
TRACKLIST
01. And the Hazy Sea
02. Some Trees
03. Indiana
04. Cold Spring
05. Share
06. What Dogs See
07. Wind Phoenix
08. The Living North
09. Like Blood Does
VIDEOS
BEST SHOTS
