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Out of all the new band’s I’ve heard this year, I think Cymbals Eat Guitars have the best shot of making it big. Charles Bissell from the Wrens, who knows a thing or two about this kind of thing, agrees. He recently said of the New York band that they “will end up indie famous within the year” and he liked the band enough to produce their first album, Why There Are Mountains which should be enough for any self-respecting indie-lover to give it a listen. The band’s sound is hugely ambitious, explosively energetic force of nature that is clearly influenced by a multitude of 90’s indie rock classics from Pavement to Built to Spill to Modest Mouse while still achieving something that is forward-looking and unpredictable.
The songs are loaded with a mixture of dueling guitars, powerful trumpets, and ornate piano that provide a brilliant combination with the ragged vocal of Joseph Ferocious which impulsively jump from a melodic croon to an anst-ridden yelp throughout the music. The best sample I can give you of the band (although every song on their debut has it’s unique pleasures) is “Wind Phoenix”. The song begins with a playful bass line and triumphant horns and bells that hook you immediately before taking a mid-song turn towards epic, sweeping guitar wankery territory. The song casually leads you back to melodic territory in no time providing a wonderful bookmark for the track.
“Share” is another spell-binding song, a slow burner that starts out sounding remarkably similiar to Broken Social Scene’s more atmospheric work. This all builds to a cathartic, rousing ending that is simply a frickin’ incredible piece of music that gets better on each listen. I know it’s early in the year, but I’m thinkging that 2009 will really have to be great to produce a better debut album then this one. Truly mindblowing stuff. My advice for you: download this immediately, this is a band you can’t afford to miss out on.
Read more rave reviews at You Ain’t No Picasso, Obscure Sound, and MP3hugger.
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