aaamusic | On 09, Apr 2012

Cymbals are set to release their new EP ‘Sideways, Sometimes’ on Tough Love Records on April 23rd 2012. View the video for lead single ‘No Bad Decisions’ directed by Daniel Brereton below:

Although their are four members onstage when the band play live, their collaborations with artist Robin Hulme (Liberty, Louis Vuitton) on the artwork for Sideways Sometimes and with Daniel Brereton (Wild Beasts, Django Django) on the video for No Bad Decisions completes a collective line up of Cymbals, as the visual identity of the band is as important as the music.

Director Daniel Brereton; “I thought the song could work with animation, and me and a couple of people helping, Etienne and Elsa, did some tests. When put to the music we thought it worked really well, so after the tests we shot the band and then added another layer of animation by “rotoscoping” the band.

The song feels a bit like a journey to me and i think the animation adds to that. The animation was often done in an “exquisite corpse” way, where one person would do one frame and another person do the next. Or sometimes we would take two separate totally different images and join them with animation in between. These techniques led to more accidental results.”

Cymbals live dates (including Temper Trap shows):

10/04 – White Heat @ Madame JoJo’s – London (w/ Prinzhorn Dance School)
05/05 – Camden Crawl – London
06/05 – Camden Crawl – London
09/05 – Pavillions – Falmouth (w/ Temper Trap)
10/05 – Wedgerooms – Portsmouth (w/ Temper Trap)
12/05 – Coal Exchange – Cardiff (w/ Temper Trap)
18/05 – Just Fantasy @ Birthdays – London (w/ Savages and Drop Out Venus)
21/05 – Koko – London (w/ Temper Trap)
21/07 – Tramlines Festival – Sheffield