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!)