Silversun Pickups - Carnavas
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Artist: Silversun PickupsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-07-25
Music Label: Dangerbird
Soundtracks:
- 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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Free Music Review: Grunge Revivalists
Hit: 5 Stars
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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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.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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