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After the success of their last album (Living Is The Best Revenge)
The Cynics never stopped playing due to popular demand and finally this past February they had enough time to record what is going to be, no doubt, their best album to date.
"The Cynics: The challenge here is picking a song from one of the best neo-garage-rock albums in years (Here We Are, out Oct. 16), but the ferocious Who-style drumming and feedback gives this the edge." Ken Barnes - USA TODAY
"With the garage rock all the rage, let’s remember who kept it going 30 years: such as Pittsburgh’s two decades running Cynics, who deserve credit along with torch- carriers like Chesterfield Kings and Billy Childish. It’s one heck of a flame, too the formidable likes of The Who, Pretty Things, Stones, Them, Yardbirds, Nuggets groups (Paul Revere & the Raiders, Sonics, Electric Prunes) And R&B cats that influenced it all- and rarely has this foursome done it better than on Here, where it’s perpertually 1965. That’s no bad thing when you have tunes such as “Last Mistake” and the fierce “Hard to Please,” where raunch ‘n’ roll meets poptastic melodies, like a new Nuggets for 2007. Yes, youth must be served. But some people’s youth lasts 20 years, and older Cynics still beat jaded teens at revival rock ‘n’ roll!" -Jack Rabid BIG TAKEOVER“The challenge here is picking a song from one of the best neo-garage-rock albums in years, but the ferocious Who-style drumming and feedback gives this the edge. “ USA TODAY“Here We Are" begins, unlike any other Cynics record, with a delicate acoustic title track, but it doesn't linger. The second track, "Coming 'Round My Way," opens with a stabbing punk guitar and a wave of '60s reverb, and "Here We Are" is on its way to being a pure rock 'n' roll record, now the most diverse in the Cynics catalog” PITTSBURGH POST- GAZETTE
The Resonars - Nonetheless Blue Review
Dismiss the hyperbole showered upon desert-spawned matadors Calexico. Sun-baked pop wunderkind Matt Rendon (who single-handedly is the Resonars) deserves greater attention. After a four-year layoff, Rendon has reemerged from his four-track studio with the jaw-dropping “Nonetheless Blue,” his most animated and cohesive output of pure shimmering psych-pop. The heavenly vocals and super-catchy melodies established on the 12 self-penned tracks echo Rendon’s beloved mid-Sixties obsessions: Hollies, Byrds and the second Nuggets box set. The meticulously layered recordings materialize as if Brian Wilson in fire hat and diaper supervised the Tucson-based artist’s enthused one-man vision. Rendon is a self-assured jack-of-all-trades: sweetly pure vocalist (“As A Matter Of Fact”), playful drummer (“Games of Fear”), scintillating guitarist (“Your Concern”) and struggling garage-punk unknown (“No Problem At All”), each demonstrating the grittiness of ’60s mescal-rockers the Dearly Beloved. Like the mighty saguaro cactus, the Resonars’ majestic instrumentation and needle-sharp lyrics provide the knock-out pill to sparkling pop bliss.By Ron Bally - Harp Magazine Jan 2008
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