- Record Label: Sister's Den
- Release Date: Sep 29, 2009
Why There Are Mountains
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 9 Ratings
- Summary: This is the debut album for the New York rock quartet.
- Record Label: Sister's Den
- Genre(s): Rock
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| ...And The Hazy Sea | |
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| Do you know how many cities had been built On the mainland and the trains there How they'd glide over the marshes And the hazy sea Carrying business... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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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.
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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.
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CEG's debut mined the quintessentially American wells of 90s alt-rock and road-trip imagery to create one of the best first albums of 2009.
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Alternative PressThese clattering seat-inducers plow through both rational song lengths and all hopes of a settling conclusion. [Oct 2009, p.110]
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The good news is that Why There Are Mountains is polished and offers some strong songwriting while still leaving the band enough room to grow into something better.
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Cymbals Eat Guitars don’t get drowned in homage, however; from the first explosive note to the last, Why There Are Mountains is a routinely rewarding album, with each listen revealing great new scenery.
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MojoLeader 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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