Silversun Pickups - Carnavas
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Free Music Review: One of the Best
Hit: 5 Stars
I love this album. Hard driving beats and catchy hooks carried along by a jangling wall of guitars. The Smashing Pumpkins comparisons may be lazy, but they're right on. Of course there are other influences in the mix, including Sonic Youth, the Pixies, My Bloody Valentine, and The Jesus & Mary Chain, but this band stands on its own. Not a weak song among the bunch, and a couple of great ones in Lazy Eye and Common Reactor. Good stuff.Free Music Review: Fun and interesting
Hit: 5 Stars
I really enjoyed this albulm. I hadn't heard them but, decided to try them out. It was a fantastic choice. I love the fuzz and lo-fi sound. The lead singer has such an ominous sound to his slow build ups. The music is super passionate. Free Music Review: This cd is amazing.
Hit: 5 Stars
It is a little different style of music than what I would normally listen to, but I was very happy with the whole album.Free Music Review: Wonderful Modern Dreamrock?
Hit: 4 Stars
I was driving along in my car one day viewing the desolate and empty Wisconsin countryside when an extremely interesting song came on the radio, it had great use of distortion and melody, and over the last few years thats become a rarity. I was instantly hooked on the overall sound and I needed to know who the band was. I prayed and prayed that they would name the song and artist after it played. Luckily, after the song eneded the announcer said it was a band named the Silversun Pickups and the title was "Lazy Eye". I tried to remember that name until I could find their cd somewhere, anywhere! I went on a trip to Chicago to chill out with some friends and felt compelled to run into the virgin records store downtown and look for it, when I found it I was impressed by the artwork and how it wasn't just a cheesy picture of something supposedly artsy or a horrible pic of the band posing and looking "hot" for the masses. I had no idea that after I walked out of the store it was the only cd I would listen to for the next two months.
This cd has some of the catchiest melodies and vocal harmonies I have heard in a long time. The songs are excellent and keep you hooked for a long time if your a fan of songs like "1979" from Smashing Pumpkins. Just FYI for everyone, I'm not doing the whole band comparison thing in this review, everyone else has overdone it so much that its just annoying at this point. The only thing I will say is that if you like songs like "1979" then you will thoroughly enjoy this album. Its almost as if the band took a song like "1979" and said "hey! lets use it as a blueprint and then make an album full of songs even more melodic and catchy!" They succeed with flying colors by the way, they incorporate the sound of their elders while bringing in that new indie confidence and artful style.
The album never becomes annoyingly catchy, it just sort of sits in your brain and hangs out, forcing you to comply and gently bob your head in that gentle agreement kind of way. I couldn't find a week track on the album, it keeps you in that trance like state for a good while and you never feel compelled to change the track because you don't like what your hearing. It is overall an extremely well done debut album from a talented new band that uses many different parts to form a new whole. They have obviously studied many bands from the last 25 years and learned everything they could to make a great album. Sure it is reminiscent of Smashing Pumpkins, but it also does it in such a way that you have to hand it to them, they made a truly compelling modern album that for once doesn't scream "I want to sound like every other popular band and become rich and famous too!", and for that reason alone I appreciate the Silversun Pickups. As slightly familiar as they sound, they remind you of bands that actually had a lot of credit and talent. I honestly believe that Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth, and other influential bands feel slightly flattered that a new band is taking after them in such a talented and revitalized way. Hopefully other bands will come out that can learn how to creatively utilize the ideas of truly great bands without becoming blind advocates of blatant [...].
I can't wait for their next album.
Free Music Review: wow
Hit: 5 Stars
this is quite lovely. just let it play. if i put it on and listen it is just okay. if i put it on and let it play and don't focus so much i'm all of a sudden taken away, esp tracks 2 and 7. again, an acquired taste. but well worth the wait.