Why There Are Mountains, the debut album from Staten Island's Cymbals Eat Guitars, was a bracing indie-rock record full of wicked guitar work, left-field tempo changes and youthful abandon. The group checked in at Laundromatinee to play stripped-down renditions of "Plainclothes" and "Tunguska," two Cymbals Eat Guitars tracks out that aren't from that record. The melodies of both songs sparkle in this setting, with the band showing the same impressive unity live that they do on record. [MOKB]