Cymbals Eat Guitars Release “Aerobed” via Spin
Devinyl Splits No. 4 With Kevin Devine Available For Pre-Order
Cymbals Eat Guitars have released “Aerobed,” their song off of Devinyl Splits No. 4 with Kevin Devine. “Aerobed,” Cymbals Eat Guitars’ first new song since 2014’s
Lose, is streaming now via
Spin Magazine. Devinyl Splits No. 4 comes to Bad Timing Records November 13th. Pre-orders are available now via
Bad Timing Records.
Over the course of 2015,
Kevin Devine has been unveiling his
Devinyl Splits Series, a six-7″ series featuring Devine teaming up with a different partner every release. So far, the series has included Devine and
Matthew Caws of
Nada Surf covering each others songs, Devine and
Meredith Graves of
Perfect Pussy each recording an intimate original song (the first solo song ever released from Graves) and Devine and
Tigers Jaw each taking on a song by
The Cure. Most recently, he has announced the next two partners,
Cymbals Eat Guitars and
Owen, as well as a string of shows with his partners from the series this December. A full list of tour dates can be found below.
Kevin Devine has also recently announced reissues of his album Matter Of Time. This live record, originally released as a tour EP in 2012, has been remastered by Jesse Cannon and released with new artwork by the Goddamn Band’s own Chris Bracco. This, along with the 2nd pressing of Devine’s fan favorite album Brother’s Blood, are available now via Bad Timing Records.
Devinyl Splits No. 4 tracklisting:
1. Cymbals Eat Guitars – Aerobed
2. Kevin Devine & The Goddamn Band – Magic Magnet
“Wanna wake up wanting to listen to records / But those old feelings elude me / I raise a toast to the rock n’ roll ghost,” sings Cymbals Eat Guitars frontman Joseph D’Agostino on the hyper-adrenalized “XR,” which sounds like a Tonight’s the Nightouttake recorded at triple speed, with its braying harmonica and spitfire vocal delivery. It’s the track that perhaps best captures the spirit of the band’s third LP, LOSE, one of coping with abject loss and grief by rediscovering what you’ve always loved, as difficult as it may be—the redemptive power of music. For D’Agostino, this entailed coming to terms with his best friend and musical collaborator Benjamin High, who passed away suddenly seven years ago, just as Cymbals Eat Guitars began recording in earnest.
LOSE is a very apropos title because it refers not only to losing Ben, but also it’s about a sort of nostalgia, a longing for a time when music meant everything to you and your friends, and it seemed like one great rock record could change everyone’s life the way it changed yours,” says D’Agostino. “It’s about being in mourning for your long-held belief that music could literally change the world. That’s the contradiction at the heart of LOSE… You’re disillusioned, but somehow you can do nothing else but rail against that feeling mightily and try, once again, to make a record that makes you and everyone else ‘wake up wanting to listen to records’.”
And indeed, the band, rounded out by bassist Matthew Whipple, keyboardist Brian Hamilton, and drummer Andrew Dole, alongside producer John Agnello, do little wallowing. This is a raucous affair, an Irish Wake, ultimately rooted in nothing less than a celebration of just being alive.
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