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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 98 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1058
Category: Music
Artist: Silversun Pickups
Publisher: Dangerbird
Studio: Dangerbird
Manufacturer: Dangerbird
Label: Dangerbird
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 20008
UPC: 185112000824
EAN: 0185112000824
ASIN: B000FUF86Q
Release Date: July 25, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Melatonin | | • | Well Thought Out Twinkles | | • | Checkered Floor | | • | Little Lover's So Polite | | • | Future Foe Scenarios | | • | Waste It On | | • | Lazy Eye | | • | Rusted Wheel | | • | Dream At Tempo 119 | | • | Three Seed | | • | Common Reactor |
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Album Description
The wait is over. Silversun Pickups are about to unveil their debut full length on July 25. The Angelenos have been hard at work in the studio for months since the release of their EP 'Pikul', and are excited for the finished copy to hit the shelves. Singer/guitarist Brian Aubert offers, "We worked our asses off and we are very proud of the finished product." Using Pikul as the blueprint, the full-length seamlessly continues with Silversun's signature sound. Aubert continues, "We stayed very focused on a feeling for the full-length. It's colder, more mechanical, moodier - but at the end of it all, it's a rock record. And that's what we wanted to make." The album captures the moody nature of Silversun Pickups' sound: fuzzy guitars, driving bass grooves, ethereal keyboards, angular drums, all complemented by Aubert's unmistakable, raspy vocals. This duality is the quality that sets the Silversun Pickups apart.
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If the idea of basement tapes made by Billy Corgan and Doug Martsch appeals to you, say hello to your new favorite band. Silversun Pickups are fairly early adopters of the 1990s revival, but they're not grunge dorks or anything, and they're from L.A. so they dress nice. Their music updates the anthemic but gauzy heavy rock sound that Veruca Salt and the Smashing Pumpkins had down pat. Thankfully, they strip it down and add plenty of finely distorted guitar leads to the whole thing. It's nice. With a spacey, laid-back sound due in no small part to knob-twiddlers Tony Hoffer and Dave Cooley, repeated listens are mandatory. Just don't pass out on the couch. --Mike McGonigal
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 The closest an album can come to giving you a hug. December 22, 2008
This is arguably my favorite album. The warm fuzz of the opener "melatonin" lifts you off your feet in a loving embrace, and the rest of the album refuses to put you down. This beautifully composed album can be played at any volume without even hurting your ears. It gently but firmly hugs your eardrums. If you like distorted guitar heroics, mind altering keyboard impressionism, booming bass guitars, and understated vocals, look nay further. The intellectual, yet minimalist math-rock drumming will keep your feet tapping. Moody, yet not in the least depressing. This band deserves the fame that so many useless bands recieve in their place. If you know only one song on this album, it is probably Lazy Eye, but this song by no means is defining, or the best song on the album. That would be like saying that the mona lisa is DaVinci's best work. There is a difference between prolific and perfect. Lazy Eye just happens to be a lucky combination of the two. The mysterious beauty of "dream at tempo 119" will not dissapoint. The devastating, yet cheerful chorus of the album's closer "the common reactor" will have you singing along, all the while wondering at its gruesome yet vague lyricism. Keep an eye on this band, gentleman. I would be greatly supprised if they managed to put an album out that failed to irrevocably influence your soul.
Grunge Revivalists November 25, 2008
The curtain rises and then falls away, and an enveloping electric guitar, drums and a searingly vibrant wall of sound forms a crescendo of sorts before your very ears. This is the start of "Carnavas," a vintage and revivalist effort from the Silversun Pickups. If the idea of a 1990's grunge revival appeals to you, say hello to your new favorite band.
Opening with a bang is the dizzying "Melatonin," a sonic explosion that serves as a perfect springboard into the heart of this album. It can shift in an instant between pulse-pounding prog rock (the ambitious "Well Thought Out Twinkles") to the more alternative ("Checkered Floor"). Singer/Guitarist Brian Aunbert's range stretches even to the quiet ("Three Seed"), the dramatic ("Common Reactor") or the catchy (the plaintive "Lazy Eye").
Perhaps the most outstanding thing about the Silversun Pickups is their seamless blend of metal, neo-psychedelia and art-rock. The vigorous electric riffs, sprawling melodies, and the whirling, muscular guitars create an interwoven mash without so much as a hiccup. At first glance, it seems like fairly typical rock/metal, but upon further listening, the enchantingly complicated music begins to filter itself fully into your brain. This is an album that will launch the next music revival, the early 1990's grunge rock sound that started in Seattle and took the world by storm. "Carnavas" updates that grungy and distorted heavy rock sound that Veruca Salt and the Smashing Pumpkins mastered. Heck, the title even sounds like something the Smashing Pumpkins would release. It's a fine effort that is heady, progressive rock but with a spacey, laid-back sound.
It's difficult to find a musical flaw in "Carnavas". The CD is fiercely adventurous, brooding and expressive, and it's easy to get hooked after just a listen or two. Inventive and enticing, this is a breathtaking, albeit vintage voyage into a majestic rock world.
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Loving it. June 2, 2008
Been desperately shopping around for new music for quite a while, since I got a new car, and needed to update the music I housed in there. This album is perfect. Heard them on Pandora Radio as a recommendation for people who like Placebo and the Smashing Pumpkins. And so it is. Bought it immediately as my first Amazon digital download, because I couldn't wait to run out to the store and buy the physical copy. So now all I need to do is buy a blank cd to burn it on, and bring it along with me on all my drives. Hurrah for finding great new music.
pumpkins - raw May 28, 2008
well thought out twinkles - - play it loud, A Billy Corgan early b-side phenomenon.
 Smashing Pumpkins comparison is fair but..... April 13, 2008
I understand some of the comparisons to the Smashing Pumpkins, but I don't necessarily like the comparison. The Pumpkins were a much more accomplished group with many more albums. Some of the distorted guitar and high-pitched vocals lend themselves to these comparisons but the Pumpkins kicked your butt from the get-go. Silversun Pickups are not going to appeal to as wide of an audience. "Lazy-Eye" is a great song, although I'm sad to see that they already sold it out for a commercial.
Matt Zarnstorff
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