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Why There Are Mountains - Cymbals Eat Guitars
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78 out of 100

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7.7 out of 10

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  • Summary: This is the debut album for the New York rock quartet.

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  1. Positive: 11 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. Pitchfork
    83
    Why There Are Mountains ends up being like any great result of wanderlust--here, the journey is the end not the means; fortunately, that gives Why There Are Mountains astounding replay value.
  2. The A.V. Club
    83
    He's certainly not the first kid to see the death of innocence in a "maelstrom of mail-order Marlboro memorabilia," but he might be the first to sing about it--here's hoping that future Cymbals Eat Guitars songs wrap such observations in similarly singular packaging.
  3. Mojo
    60
    Leader Joseph D'Agostino drops vowels with a schizoid, Malkmus-esque charm (somewhere between a meltdown and a bong pipe), while the band see-saw between going for the jugular and a surprisingly touching melodic tinkering. [Dec 2009, p. 90]
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