Cymbals Eat Guitars ~ Some Trees (Merritt Moon)Album: Why There Are Mountains [2009]
an indie rock band from new york city, cymbals eat guitars made their critically acclaimed full-length album debut in 2009. starting in the tenth grade, some of the members performed covers of songs from the first two weezer albums (the only ones that matter!); by the end of their senior year, they'd begun performing original material and recorded a demo titled "joseph ferocious". as a college student, band leader joseph d'agostino worked toward forming a full band and placed an ad on craigslist, steadily assembling a full-band line-up that was christened "cymbals eat guitars" upon its formation in early 2008. after the release of their debut, their worth skyrocketed when pitchfork crowned the band as a "best new music" selection. in the long parade of critical accolades that followed, comparisons were drawn to modest mouse, pavement, and dinosaur jr., and much was made of d'agostino's youth and indie star potential. "some trees" emerges from feedback exhaust into two minutes of tightly coiled post-punk dance with wonderfully tasteful hooks. lyrically, it's much more intense than the other songs on the album; at first an environmentalist's lament of suburban sprawl, a much more sinister effect of deforestation is revealed - "i was thankful for the mystery, but by the time the girl had hanged herself, i could have looked out my back window and watched her neck just snap". this is followed by a bright little chorus that screams of modest mouse influence, which is immediately followed by a magical little solo that screams of built to spill influence. it ends very abruptly and after your head stops spinning you can't help but wonder how they're able to fit so much into two minutes.
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