Silversun Pickups
This band is so rad. I can't stop listening to their album so I decided to write a review before Pitchfork posted some crap:
Silversun Pickups
Carnavas
Rocks like:
Smashing Pumpkins
My Bloody Valentine
Sonic Youth
The second track from Silversun Pickups' debut full-length album is named Well Thought Out Twinkles, which about paraphrases their sound: well-constructed, shimmering, haunting, and bittersweet. The L.A. quartet achieve this by interweaving guitar and keyboard atmospherics over rolling bass grooves. The vocals are layered as well: bassist Nikki Monninger counterpoints frontman Brian Aubert in several harmonies. While some hype up the interplay between male and female singers, I feel that Aubert's voice is rather androgynous. The textured effect achieved by the duo is interesting nonetheless.
Carnavas is an intelligently arranged album. Just when the music seems to drone or to cede to a wave of distorted guitar, there is a well-placed solo, a throaty scream, or an outburst of keyboard. There happen to be some breaths of air amid all the intensity. Rusted Wheel is a hypnotic, slower-paced song following the sprawling, impassioned Lazy Eye. Future Foe Scenarios is a strong track with its catchy, yelled chorus, "This revolution baby, proves who you work for lately/who do you work for baby, and does it work for you lately?" The other gems on this album are Dream Tempo 119 and the end track Common Reactor.
Overall, Carnavas is a dense and mesmerizing album that ranges from racous to trippy. And it's one of those albums that gets better each time you listen to it.
Sample Tracks
03/16/06 KEXP Live In-Studio Performance
09/26/05 KEXP Live In-Studio Performance
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