CYMBALS DEBUT NEW SONG ‘EROSION’
FIRST NEW TRACK TO BE RELEASED SINCE ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENT
THE AGE OF FRACTURE RELEASED 27TH JANUARY ON TOUGH LOVE RECORDS
LONDON SHOW: 4TH FEBRUARY AT ELECTROWERKZ
It’s about the fracture of ideas
And in the brain, running between action and desire
About dancing and wanting and the heart
About the city, and working every day
About manipulation and complicity
About love, dropping into this mess like a dead weight, splitting through the floors
It’s fragmented
There is no concept
CYMBALS have shared their first new song since the announcement of their new album, The Age Of Fracture. ‘Erosion’ is now available to stream via the band’s Tough Love Records Soundcloud page, ahead of the album’s release on 27th January 2014.
The long-awaited new album from CYMBALS is named after a book by Princeton academic, Daniel T. Rodgers, which addresses the fragmentation of ideas towards the end of the last century and how collective meanings have become uncertain. Singer and guitarist Jack Cleverly writes: “It hit me that I often feel paralysed by the feeling that everything is ‘too complicated’, and that many people I know feel that paralysis. I realised that this way of thinking can be traced through these songs.”
Produced by Dreamtrak (Swim Deep, Chad Valley, Hot Chip) in his Hackney studio and written collectively over the last 12-months, the group have taken their time to carefully piece the album together, song-by-song, in sequence. The album was completed following a final mix from Daniel Rejmer (Foals, Everything Everything) and the result is testament to the band’s attention to detail: a cleaner, brighter sound than their brattier early recordings, edging towards the European sophistication of the end-of-the-century French house Jack grew up around.
The literary inspiration runs further through the album. Even garnered literary responses of its own by British poet and novelist Joe Dunthorne, author of Submarine. Last week, CYMBALS shared his short film that announced the album
Through the writing of this album, CYMBALS have inevitably matured. “We’ve never been in it just for a laugh,” says Cleverly; “but things got confused when we said we wanted to keep it fun – we just didn’t want to end up bitter, having chased a hollow dream. But this album is less about us; it’s more outward looking, more aware of the world at large.”
Despite the weighty literary influences, the band are keen to separate themselves from the over-earnestness that can sometimes accompany such associations. “I hate the whole ‘serious earnest-singer-songwriter-thing,'” says Jack. “With this album I really wanted to get away from that and make music that makes people want to dance and feel joy. Neil’s kick drum is the most important thing we have to say as a band. Is this all “fun”? Yes, of course, but at the same time, not just that.”
CYMBALS LIVE
04/02 London, UK – Electrowerkz
CYMBALS
The Age of Fracture
(Tough Love Records)
Release Date: Feb 4, 2014
Pre-order: smarturl.it/ageoffractureitunes
1. Winter ’98
2. The Natural World
3. You Are
4. Empty Space
5. The 5%
6. The Fracture of Age
7. Like An Animal
8. Erosion
9. This City
10. The End
11. Call Me
Listen to ‘Erosion here
https://soundcloud.com/tough-love/cymbals-erosion/
http://youtu.be/RnMW35r6oYk
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Label – http://toughloverecords.com/