Cymbals Eat Guitars – Why There Are Mountains
If you’ve ever traveled across northern Ohio and Indiana, you have undoubtedly found out that one’s mindset goes through the following: tacet acceptance > undeserved/inexplicable excitement > borderline nervous breakdown > unmitigated glee. Cymbals Eat Guitars’ Why There Are Mountains perfectly mirror this experience – ironically so since there are no mountains between Cleveland and Chicago. Their music walks the fine line between anarchic cacophony and pure pop bliss. Swelling noise and feedback peel away to pop hooks which ultimately roll into unruly crescendos where you think the song will literally break down, but it doesn’t. Instead it pulls you back into those hooks punctuated by smartly used piano. As for the songs themselves, each serves as their own journey, The longer more epic opener “And the Hazy Sea” rolls in in out of several movements before finally relenting, while the taught “Indiana” crescendos once before collapsing under the weight of its own catchiness.
MP3: Cymbals Eat Guitars – Indiana
MP3: Cymbals Eat Guitars – Hazy Sea
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