As noted by our Michael Hoven, Cymbals Eat Guitars are yet another band whose debut album has been getting mad hype without it even being available in most stores (hey, just like the Antlers and about 156 other bands in the history of indiedom). The band recently took to KEXP in Washington for an in-studio performance of their great "Wind Phoenix," a tempo-shifting, ever-climbing anthem that seems to change directions about six times. It's also kind of weird to see a shouty song like this performed with no audience. It sounds like it should always be performed in front of sweaty masses in a basement.

Cymbals Eat Guitars' Why There Are Mountains is out now via a self-release, but will be available in wider distribution on Sept. 22. [Pitchfork]