Cymbals Eat Guitars

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Shervin Lainez

Cymbals Eat Guitars

Taking their name from an old Lou Reed quote describing The Velvet Underground, Cymbals Eat Guitars also share Reed's fluid vision of what rock can be. The Staten Island four-piece plays a frenetic mix of indie rock, post-punk, and emo that’s earned them slots opening for artists as disparate as Bob Mould and Brand New. Their most recent release, Pretty Years, came out in 2016.

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“Pretty Years,” that showcases the band at its peak. The soaring, wistful album plunges into quarter-life crises, Bruce Springsteen shout-outs and wild Fourth of July benders, with every song bursting with singalong potential." - The New York Times

"Cymbals Eat Guitars' members have trafficked in a loose and effusive sound that recalls indie- and college-rock aesthetics informed by bands from The Replacements to Archers Of Loaf to Beach Slang and others who peer back to the 1980s and '90s with fresh eyes and ears." -NPR

"Every Cymbals Eat Guitars album has been dense, but none have covered as much ground as effectively as Pretty Years. With the help of producer John Congleton, who continues his remarkable streak of bringing out the best in nearly every act he works with, the band nods to some of the wilder arrangements of ’80s pop-rock records like Born in the U.S.A., Brothers in Arms, and Head on the Door. " -Pitchfork

"...Pretty Years isn’t just the working artist’s lament. These songs are suffused with cosmic beauty, the wild nothing of D’Agostino’s emotive guitar tone spiriting the band toward a higher plane." -SPIN

"Pretty Years breaks down the barriers between rock subgenres — not surprising for a band that’s toured in recent years with Quicksand and Bob Mould and Brand New and Say Anything — and it ends up coming out sounding like what a rock album in 2016 ideally should." -Brooklyn Vegan