"Silversun Pickups" thread. They are an L.A. based band.

Website = http://www.silversunpickups.com/

 

Anyone else ever heard them or like them? :)

They're quite different and Indie and I think they're pretty good.

I just downloaded 'Carnava' a couple of days ago.

 

I don't know, they are certainly different than what I expected. But they're not awful. I think I'll have to listen to the album again to really know for sure. :)

Yeah, I figure it will take a number of listens to get used to the band's sound.

 

Even for bands like Coldplay, Athlete, and Snow Patrol, it took me a few listens to like some of their songs.

Ironically, those ones are the ones that I favour even more now! :cool:

Strange how that works. :nice:

Hehehe yeah it's the same for me too. :)

 

They're pretty good. I like 'Well Thought Out Twinkles'.

^ Ditto. "Well Thought Out Twinkles" has an interesting bass line. Almost 'Muse'-ish.

Ah, from your screen name I'm guessing that you like the band Muse.... :shy:

My friend saw this band live and he said they were awesome

^ Ditto. "Well Thought Out Twinkles" has an interesting bass line. Almost 'Muse'-ish.

Ah, from your screen name I'm guessing that you like the band Muse.... :shy:

 

Haha yes I love Muse. But don't be fooled by the title of the song I'm referencing... I am a hardcore fan. Hehe I don't just like BH&R. I have all the albums and I wear them out. 'Starlight' is just a cute name for a username. :P

 

I like the song as well, just not as much as their other stuff.

^ Oh, I see! hahaha, I know another hardcore "Muse" fan actually! She likes basically everything too. :)

 

My friend saw this band live and he said they were awesome

Really?! That's really awesome. :cool:

Where did your friend see them live? What songs did they play? (sorry, I'm just curious)

My friend saw Silversun Pickups live too! She really liked it.

Really?! That's really awesome. :cool:

Where did your friend see them live? What songs did they play? (sorry, I'm just curious)

 

umm...i'm not sure......I'll ask when he comes online...

very good band, downloaded carnavas about a month ago, love rusted wheel

 

they are supporting snow patrol on their australian tour in september, funny thing is that their melbourne sideshow sold out before the snow patrol gig did

They're pretty good. I like Lazy Eye.. :cool:

SSPU

 

^^^ Yes same here, great song!

In fact, Lazy Eye was the first song I'd ever heard from them and it was intriuging enough to make me find out more about the band. ;)

 

very good band, downloaded carnavas about a month ago, love rusted wheel

 

they are supporting snow patrol on their australian tour in september, funny thing is that their melbourne sideshow sold out before the snow patrol gig did

Wow, they sold tix faster than Snow Patrol! That's very amazing.

Thanks for the news! :cool:

(P.S. = Rusted Wheel is also one of my favourites too.

Actually, their new album "Carnavas" has one good song after another. :dance:)

Love them dearly. I have some pics when I saw them open for Snow Patrol.

 

From the Pikul EP this is still my fav song.

 

 

 

Uhhh how do you post a Youtube video here again???

 

 

 

 

^ Oh Wow! :shocked2:

(hehe, sorry for the late reply...)

 

but, those pics are really cool! Nikki's dress is very pretty too. :cool:

Thanks Marisa!

 

And "Kissing Families" is an awesome song with a really sweet video.

* To post it onto the page, you do link[media close brackets

 

Anyway, I Love the song and video for "Well Thought Out Twinkles"

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlsO-JSA2pc

Hey all!

 

Has anyone here heard of Silversun Pickups??

I believe theyre from LA. And I know they supported Snow Patrol in their Australian Tour at least (I didn't see Snow Patrol, I just happen to know that).

 

Anyways, I've only really heard "Lazy Eye" which I think sounds cool.

They could be total crap, but I like that song and I thought I'd start a thread about them to see who else knows/likes them...

Hey all!

 

Has anyone here heard of Silversun Pickups??

I believe theyre from LA. And I know they supported Snow Patrol in their Australian Tour at least (I didn't see Snow Patrol, I just happen to know that).

 

Anyways, I've only really heard "Lazy Eye" which I think sounds cool.

They could be total crap, but I like that song and I thought I'd start a thread about them to see who else knows/likes them...

 

 

Yeah, they are from LA. I hadn't heard of them until I saw them open up for Snow Patrol with OK GO last March. All I can say is WOW... They are a great live band.. Blew my socks off.. OK GO were great too.

 

Anywho, go get their album, Carnavas it's real good.

 

here's a search of some live performances on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Silversun+Pickups+Live

coolies thanks. ill check it out!

Hmmm there is already a thread on Silversun Pickups I think....

 

Whatsoever, Dave (or any mod) could you merge these two threads together?

 

**On topic:

 

My favorite SP song at the moment is Waste It On...love the bass in that. :D

I'm diggin' them. The bassist bugs me out the way she bops around...lol I like them.

Has anyone heard the new single yet?

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwIy6CJT7Ok]YouTube - "Panic Switch" Silversun Pickups [swoon Album][/ame]

“I’ll tell you a secret / let’s make it perfectly clear / there’s no secrets this year” – ‘There’s No Secrets This Year,’ Swoon

 

It’s no secret that Silversun Pickups score the soundtrack for the cacophony and quiet of the urban environment. Their songs curl like a sleeping dragon around the foothills, soar between the skyscrapers, and slouch in the shadows of forbidden offramps and skid row. The Silversun Pickups sound is a city itself and on the new album, Swoon, we tag along on a schizophrenic taxi ride to the dark side. After all, the City of Silversun is a landscape populated with contradictions: the clamor of traffic and the solace of the garden; fashionistas lined up at taco trucks after hours; moonlight bike rides and holdups at knifepoint.

 

But Silversun Pickups would be nothing without the community that fostered them. Or so says guitar conjurer and siren songster, Brian Aubert. Brought together as a group of neighborhood friends, SSPU evolved into a homegrown behemoth as their muddy guitar fuzz, and ear-bursters blew across the world on the titanic 2006 stargazing, rocking debut LP, Carnavas. But for Aubert, the life of the rocker was never out of reach. “I’ve always lived around bands, so it took away all the myth and romanticism of being in a band. You knew you could do it.”

 

This band came of age in Los Angeles’ multicultural, bohemian enclave, Silver Lake, where the members learned to overcome their fears through playing in the organic network of clubs and bars that birthed Beck and Elliott Smith.

 

“When we were starting out, we were too shy to turn up the volume. Now we’re not afraid to get loud,” Aubert says. “I used to be nervous to go to the mic, now I swallow it.”

 

As Carnavas snowballed into an avalanche of critical praise, landed them on the Billboard charts and gained recognition from nose-turning indie rockers and mainstream pop lovers alike, frontman Aubert slowly realized that Silversun Pickups’ musical landscape was changing too. “We were landing on charts in countries I’d never been too, like Chile and all over South America. Things were changing fast.”

 

“Change is coming soon” – ‘The Royal We,’ Swoon

 

After two-plus years of touring, the band returned home to a different place than they had left. “It was a dark time when we got back. We had to water the relationships that we had neglected over those two years, and I think this darkness came out on our new record,” Aubert says.

 

The sediment of experience accumulated for the band, and they were eager to spit it out. They went back into the studio to produce what would become their much-anticipated second album, Swoon. The success of Carnavas offered a blessing and a challenge. There’s the breathing room that comes with a successful record and the pressure to produce a follow-up. SSPU returned to the studio with familiar friends, producer Dave Cooley (J Dilla, Darker My Love), and mixer Tony Hoffer (Depeche Mode, The Kooks), who helped create Carnavas. For Swoon, the aperture of the band opened up and allowed for possibilities the band never imagined.

 

“We wanted to add strings to creep the album out a bit, so we just wanted to have a quartet that were friends of the neighborhood. That quartet then turned into a 16-piece orchestra, which blew our mind,” Aubert expresses.

 

Swoon is a thick, layered listen, burgeoning with rich strings and crunchy guitars. The warm noise frothing from what sounds like a thousand guitars nearly crushes the opening track, “There’s No Secrets This Year.” Aubert’s delicate, wafting voice ties the driving drums and blistering bass together in a tightly wound web that keeps the track from imploding. At the peak of noise the track does what the album proclaims: it swoons, falling backward into a free flowing Eno-esque soundscape. The album celebrates the intimacy and anonymity of getting lost in a sea of people or the swarm of the cityscape, Aubert says.

 

Like a community garden in Silversun City, Swoon creates spaces of introspection in the middle of chaos. For every grand concert hall built from a gentle string swell, like on “Catch and Release,” Swoon burns it down in a conflagration of noise, scorching with searing bass and growling guitar, as on “Panic Switch.” “We have a psychotic relationship with our songs – we can’t have it too clean. We have to fuck it up somehow,” Aubert declares.

 

“Sit back and breathe” – ‘It’s Nice to Know You Work Alone,’ Swoon

 

In every city and in every town, there is a place where artists and musicians cook up projects over front porch beers and where late night garage jams turn into bands. These bands’ origins aren’t too different than Silversun Pickups’. But Aubert recognizes that there’s something different about the community that fostered them. “The feet of the band are on the soil where they live,” Aubert says.

 

Silversun Pickups pull their sound from the soil of their backyard, which reconciles frenzy with solitude; sprawl and the structure; and innovation with collaboration. “It can be lonely here, because the city is so disconnected,” Aubert explains, “but here you can also escape the noise of the city into your own house, your own private place. But we’re all connected by community.”

 

And it is the community that holds Silversun Pickups in the palm of her hand.

I like their song "Lazy Eye"Awesome song!

Ooo really excited for the new album! The single sounds familiar but fresh.

Please oh please let them tour nearby!