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UK band CYMBALS streaming debut LP, playing SXSW

by Bill Pearis

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Your new album Age Of Fracture is inspired in part by Daniel T. Rodgers book of the same name. What can you tell me about the concept behind this?

Jack (Cleverly) was reading Rodgers’ book at the time of writing the songs. It’s not a concept album really, many of the songs were written before the record started and it took us a year to make it. But the themes of the book fit what we were doing and when Jack related to us what the concept we started to work towards that. Then when we contacted Daniel to ask for permission to use the name he was great about it and really liked the music.

Do you think once the influenced was explained from Jack that these themes started to shape the music?

I think the lyrics written by Dan and Jack definitely draw parallels to the themes of the book. In terms of sound we’ve always wanted to make house music with real instruments, to give it the more raw live feel that can be heard in some of our early stuff. This time around we really started to experiment with the audio in post-production and having fun with the sound of the album. Dreamtrak, who was our producer, really helped with that side of things. – [The Journalist]

London electropop quartet CYMBALS just released their debut album, Age of Fracture, this week via UK label Tough Love. If your tastes skew towards the Britpoppier side of dance (Hot Chip, Outfit, Breton), this is a fizzy, hummable addition to your collection. The whole record is currently streaming on Pitchfork Advance.

CYMBALS will be making their first trip to North America in March for SXSW, so if you’re going look for them there. No word on whether they’ll be playing other shows along the way. In addition to the album stream, you can check out a couple CYMBALS videos below.

CYMBALS – “The Natural World”

CYMBALS – “Candy Bar”

CYMBALS – ‘Like An Animal’