{"product_id":"lenses-alien","title":"Lenses Alien","description":"Rather than playing it safe and simply re-creating their 2009 debut, Cymbals Eat Guitars decided to tweak their sound in a moodier direction on their sophomore album, Lenses Alien. Focusing on mining melody from discord, the band's follow-up combines the jangly harmony of Archers of Loaf with the slick precision of the Dismemberment Plan, pinning listeners under a Wall of Sound in songs like \"Rifle Eyesight (Proper Name)\" before letting them explore the wide-open spaces of \"The Current.\" Despite only taking a couple of years to put out a second album, Lenses Alien also feels like an altogether more grown-up record. A lot of the sparkling ebullience that permeated Why There Are Mountains seems to have given way to a darker tone that gives the band a more weathered sound without making them seem jaded or weary. This kind of shift marks Cymbals Eat Guitars as a band that is willing to grow their sound rather than just be content to release the same album again and again, making Lenses Alien an album that's not only a great follow-up to their first album, but a promise of good things yet to come. ~ Gregory Heaney","brand":"MovieMars","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45538696724767,"sku":"5060146092586","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/7833\/0399\/files\/3af29287fb27511070bd1be7fdfffc99.jpg?v=1777869401","url":"https:\/\/www.moviemars.com\/products\/lenses-alien","provider":"MovieMars","version":"1.0","type":"link"}