Cymbals Eat Guitars // LOSE
| by Kate Leib
You’re driving on the densest highway system in the most densely populated state, passing more diners, shopping malls, and toxic waste dumps than than anywhere else in the country. You’re on your way to ride the tallest Roller Coaster in the world with your best friends in a town named after the biggest slaveowner in the Southwestern United States so you can momentarily feel weightless and alive.
, proud, “They’re history / Well this won’t make a difference / There’s radiation living for a million years” It’s in this self-referential and conversational style that LOSE can simultaneously serve as D’Agostino’s own emotional outlet while capturing the universal experience of loss and how it continues to permeate over the long-term for himself and others in beautifully articulated form. Whether it’s the loss of your childhood friend, your identity all together, Cymbals Eat Guitars are right there with you.
https://soundcloud.com/barsuk-records/cymbals-eat-guitars-jackson-from-…
Eric Bachmann.
devilish creatures rumored to lurk in the Pine Barrens stretching far below. And all you’ll be able to do is scream into the wind that you don’t wanna die, get in line, do it again, and then listen to LOSE all the way home.
BEST TRACKS: 1, 2, 5, 4, 3, 6, 9, 7, 8 (shit that’s all of them)
RIYL: New Jersey Core, New Jersey Lore,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
GRADE: A-
LOSE is out Aug 25 on Barsuk/Tough Love
Perfect From Then On” Thursday nights, 8-10 on WRMC.
