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Some songs are for filling those rooms that stare you down and brandish their emptiness in spite of your imminent flight. If Joseph D'Agostino is singing with his heart in it, the songs will hold the fort to allow you the temerity to take off. (Which he is.) Something about Why There Are Mountains tells you that you can bequeath your boxes to someone you will have truly loved for a few days and not weep over this. That moving is your only constant, you have it in you, the one place that knows how far you would go for a good reason to stay.
And that childhood fantasy of yours to board the bus and disappear? By God, were you ever new and dumb.
Cymbals Eat Guitars, with its ambient sort of New York, New York pop, is unsigned. The debut album self-released this year, copyrighted to songwriter / guitarist / lead vocalist D'Agostino, was produced by Kyle "Slick" Johnson who was a sound engineer for Modest Mouse's We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank. The band took root when D'Agostino, presently in college, and drummer Matthew Miller were tenth graders; they would find keyboardist Daniel Baer through Craigslist and round up the roster with bassist Neil Berenholz. The band name references "a piece of Lou Reed's philosophy about recording rock bands".
^An ornithopter design by Leonardo da Vinci (c. 1488), from Wikipedia
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www.myspace.com/cymbalseatguitars
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love it! 'speci'ly in the middle when that sqiggly guitar and the drums pick everything up off the floor. at your suggestion, I'm letting go...
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www.myspace.com/cymbalseatguitars
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Rob - the album is wailing guitars galore. i certainly hope i did not suggest the right solution to the wrong question. ;d
very nice. i'm still on the first track, but i gotta say , i like those little quiet guitars just before the crazy break that have that balalaika, or bazuki sound. a nice touch.
if iPod=bus, then the headphones are my link back to naivete. wonderful guitars, crunchy in all the right places. was not expecting those delightful horns. God, I miss recklessness right now...but this will do. Lou Reed finished yesterday, as "Pale Blue Eyes" faded out an ep. of Cold Case; and now he inspires today...
Ya know, if you hadn't said anything about Modest Mouse I would've said they sounded very Modest Mousey quite a bit, especially in the vocals but overall too. Like! The red button song is very cool w/it's quiet/loud/quiet dynamic. Excellent find you new music maven you!
sorry, but i dropped back in for more. listening to the songs again. D'Agostino voice sounds very much like Tim Kinsella from Cap'n Jazz, Promise Ring. I need to get in the know about Cymbals Eat Guitars.
I've been listening to their myspace page songs & enjoying them alot!
Ssssccccooooooooooooooooorrrrrreeeeeee!!!!
Nice one Ilay, sounds like Modest Mouse too!
Very nice sound, unsigned huh? Hope they make it. Gotta check the MS page.
Jeff - nice reference to the balalaika. that word always reminds me of something also Russian, Baba Yaga, the flying witch who eats little children.
Scott - hmm, if iPod=bus, then subwoofer=train station? there's no reason to miss recklessness, you don't have to leave it behind. ;D weirdly, nothing in their music sounds like Lou Reed.
Aug - i knew you knew. you have bat sense! since a lot of us like these, i might make 'em magically available. make that automagically, says the right-frame banner ad.
also, The Wrens has been putting in a good word for these guys.
Rob - ahh yeah, Cap'n Jazz, back when emo was not a bad word, eh? i didn't know Tim Kinsella is with The Promise Ring.
Dave - goodie. overall the album echoes both Modest Mouse and Pavement although the latter's less apparent in my uploaded tracks.
Galen - the way they're starting to get some positive internet buzz, label distribution may not be so far off, hopefully for them.
"the one place that knows how far you would go for a good reason to stay"...love it! Knew your heart couldn't be hushed for more than a coupla days. Heaven forbid! Sing, beautiful little bird.
And don't worry about getting too close to that sun - I still think it's worth it, don't you?
As an aside, my screensaver these past coupla years has been a series of DaVinci's drawings of flying prototypes.
Enjoyed the music too, guess I should throw that in there! Thanks.
Kris - flying prototypes. of course. it's so you.
waxed wings. recklessness (to borrow Scott's wordage). i still keep invading the private space of that damn sun. we are stubborn women!
nope, i'm mistaken, it was the other guy, Tim played in Joan of Arc, not Promise Ring. i got confused
Um...that was great!
Rob - okay then. we'll chalk it up to drunken-posting. (kidding!)
GR - um...yeah! ;D thanks for stopping by.