NYC quartet Cymbals Eat Guitars have announced their signing to Barsuk Records, home to such fellow luminaires as David Bazan, Maps & Atlases, Menomena, and Viva Voce. The band — no slouches, they &mdash spent nearly the last two years touring 2009’s Why There Are Mountains and are set to record their sophomore release later this month with producer John Agnello (Sonic Youth, Kurt Vile), who knows a thing or two about twisting knobs; the new LP is due this fall.
Cymbals Eat Guitars also contributed a cover of Guided By Voices nugget “Gleemer” to an upcoming Guided By Voices tribute LP entitled Sing for Your Meat on No More Fake Labels, which also boasts contributions from the likes of Lou Barlow, Blitzen Trapper, Crooked Fingers, Elf Power, Flaming Lips, Thurston Moore, Sorry About Dresden, and Superdrag. That there album is due April 16. You can listen to Cymbals Eat Guitars’ version of “Gleemer” right here, right now.
• Cymbals Eat Guitars: http://cymbalseatguitars.com
• Barsuk: http://www.barsuk.com