New music: Cymbals Eat Guitars

I remember getting Cymbals Eat Guitars' self-released (and later re-released) debut Why There Are Mountains and absolutely falling in love.  It was an album I could get lost in, scream along to and just geek out on.  I fucking wore that record out - back to front - "Cold Spring", "Indiana", "Living North"...the whole damn thing. 

In the months after Why There Are Mountains was re-released, new songs started to emerge.  One was "Plainclothes", a dark story song about murder and drug and sex.  My favorite, "Another Tunguska" pulls you in and tightens it grip as it explodes into chaos, then relaxes again.  Now those songs are out in official form on the band's sophomore LP Lenses Alien.  This is not a review of Lenses Alien, but just an ackowledgement of two fantastic songs that I fell in love with over a year ago and now get to hear anew.

Cymbals Eat Guitars - Plainclothes (WOXY live session)
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Another Tunguska (WOXY live session)

(RIP WOXY)

Lenses Alien is out today - get it here (packages available that include vinyl test pressing!)

New music: Cymbals Eat Guitars

Cymbals Eat Guitars' Why There Are Mountains was one of my favorite albums of last year - a perfect blend of 90's alt-rock influences and epic, modern indie rock.  Over the last year the band has shared a few excellent next tracks that one hopes will be on their next full-length.  The first was "Plainclothes" a song that showed a much stronger narrative than anything on Why There Are Mountains.  Now the New Jersey band has released two more tracks - listen below:

Cymbals Eat Guitars - Definitive Darkness
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Wavelengths