First Listen: Cymbals Eat Guitars, 'Lose' — npr.org

Cymbals Eat Guitars' new album, Lose, comes out Aug. 26. Eric White/Courtesy of the artist hide caption Cymbals Eat Guitars' new album, Lose, comes out Aug. 26. As you might expect from a band named after a truism among recording engineers, Cymbals Eat Guitars is hardly slavish in its devotion to a single sound. Since its inception in 2007, the Staten Island group has traipsed and stomped its way through countless puddles, from twinkling laments to ecstatic yawps, channeling a generation's worth of indie-rock touchpoints. If the band has a unifying philosophy, it's that rock music is a negotiable solid, one that should be assembled with great energy and not-inconsiderable exertion.

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