Pretty Years, the wildly ambitious fourth LP for Cymbals Eat Guitars, is easily the band's most
sonically enigmatic and most rewarding album yet. Their trademark cacophonic guitar rock and
innate propulsion are still abundant, but they're buttressed by raucous synth and keyboard lines,
and an extemporaneous saxophone performance, which enrich when they could easily clutter
these songs. The band also worked more quickly and efficiently than they had in the past, facilitated
by years on the road in which they've played close to a thousand shows, which rendered
them a tight, fully-oiled machine in the studio.