Cymbals Eat Guitars are back, with plans to release new album LOSE on August 26 via Barsuk Records. It’s their first since 2012’s Lenses Alien.
LOSE is a personal record for frontman Joseph D’Agostino, who copes with the loss of his friend, Ben High, who died seven years ago just when things were getting started for the band. Here’s what D’Agostino had to say about the record:
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
They’ve shared the albums opening track “Jackson”, and it’s a winner. A powerful song that takes you on an affecting emotional journey that hits you like a ton of bricks.
It’s a must listen, and you can do just that right now, as its posted below.
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