Artist: Cymbals Eat Guitars
Title: Lenses Alien
Label: Memphis Industries
Genre: Indie
Bitrate: 255kbit av.
Time: 00:39:12
Size: 72.05 mb
Rip Date: 2011-07-26
Str Date: 2011-09-13
01. Rifle Eyesight (Proper Name) 8:31
02. Shore Points 2:35
03. Keep Me Waiting 3:00
04. Plainclothes 4:13
05. Definite Darkness 4:52
06. Another Tunguska 3:12
07. The Current 2:07
08. Wavelengths 2:54
09. Secret Family 3:29
10. Gary Condit 4:19
Release Notes:
Staten Island’s very own Cymbals Eat Guitars are all set to release
their second album Lenses Alien on Memphis Industries on 12th
September.
Its two years since Cymbals Eat Guitars, fronted by songwriter and lead
vocalist Joseph D’Agostino, self released their debut album 'Why There
Are Mountains'. The record was a distillation of a modern America
beyond the boundaries of Brooklyn, lyrically an update on the New York
of Roth and Bellow, musically inspired by the likes of Guided By Voices
and Pavement, displaying a maturity that belied their comparative
youth.
The album received a huge amount of critical acclaim on both sides of
the Atlantic. The four piece, with D’Agostino on guitar and vocals
(displaying the most ferocious primal scream this side of Black
Francis), Matt Miller on drums, Brian Hamilton on keys and Matthew
Whipple on bass, embarked on a whirlwind of international touring. So
they played support to the likes of The Flaming Lips and The Hold
Steady and hit up festivals from Lollapolooza and Glastonbury. Finally,
come the autumn of 2010, Cymbals Eat Guitars hopped off the touring
carousel to start work on their second album.
'Lenses Alien' is a stunning example of a band growing into itself –
learning to collaborate, becoming more confident with themselves and
each other. Refinement and clarity of purpose came in no small part
with the guidance of producer John Agnello, and together they set out
to craft an album that re-contextualized the band’s favoured sounds and
highlighted underexplored strengths.
At its core, 'Lenses Alien' is a marriage of classic pop forms and
ambient haze that makes for a stark, dusky psychedelia. D’Agostino’s
vocals, now with support from Hamilton and Whipple, sit daringly at the
forefront while his lyrics are dark, strange and affecting as ever.
Miller and Whipple move the songs as a singular, powerful unit while
ornate guitars and Hamilton’s celestial organ and chiming pianos whirl
across the sonic landscape.
Songs like ‘Definite Darkness’ and ‘Keep Me Waiting’ move with the
frenetic urgency of romance that seemingly begins and ends all at once,
and ‘Secret Family’ and ‘Wavelengths’ combine Motown-esque turns with
impressionistic visions of lost youth and the struggle to retain it. A
relentlessly complex listen, 'Lenses Alien' strikes a balance between
the archaic and the inviting and is as much a document of doubts and
contradictions as of irreverent joy. It’s a varied collection of songs
that feels handmade – built from the ground up – and it’s precisely the
album Cymbals Eat Guitars was built to make.
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