Pretty Years

Following up their remarkable LOSE, the Staten Island rockers try to fight grief with dense, hook-filled songs about the intrinsic value of being alive.

Cymbals Eat Guitars is a “blog rock” survivor. Cymbals emerged in 2009 with Why There Are Mountains, the product of a bunch of high school buddies self-releasing a record without any expectations. But like so many bands that had that derisive term shoved upon it, the record caught on, hard and fast. At a time when Pitc…

Pretty Years is a superb rock album which, this time around, celebrates life instead of musing on death.

The Staten Island band’s new full-length is at its best when it doesn’t try so hard to push the boundaries.

Cymbals Eat Guitars debuted in 2009 with comparisons to Modest Mouse and Built To Spill; last year, they recorded with Brand New's Jesse Lac...

It's been constant flux for Cymbals Eat Guitars since they seemingly came out of nowhere in 2009 with the excellent Why There Are Mountains.

Cymbals Eat Guitars - Pretty Years review: Try to take it all with me / but we forget finally.