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New York City’s Cymbals Eat Guitars often garner comparison to well known 90’s Indie bands such as Pavement, Built to Spill, and Modest Mouse, all correct in their nature the sound in no way sounds dated.  Cymbals Eat Guitars manage to mix all these influences to produce something familiar yet thoroughly different and forward looking.

Formed when lead singer Joseph D’Agostino was only 19, they began working on Demos before being a fully formed band with Charles Bissell of The Wrens fame before the band had fully formed. Charles Bissell himself commenting later on how mature D’Agostino was despite his age and assuring they’d be indie famous before long.

And that assessment makes sense. On their self released debut album, Why There Are Mountains, which garnered the best new music honors by pitchfork media, they constantly mix what seems like a dizzying amount of sounds and effects into well crafted, self assured and on occasion epic songs. When seeing them live one often feels as if they must be playing multiple songs all at one but never do you feel as if its too cluttered a sound. And while the album provides a miss or two, it’s an overall solid debut for such a young band.

The potential for Cymbals Eat Guitars seems limitless and it’s really only a matter of time before everyone else starts to catch on to what some already have, that they are worth taking notice of.

And the Hazy Sea

Cold Spring

Wind Phoenix

Some Trees