Silversun Pickups

[ColdplayBirdsFly]

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"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.

[Starlight]

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. :)

[ColdplayBirdsFly]

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:

[Starlight]

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

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

[ColdplayBirdsFly]

^ 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:

[caru_Politik]

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

[Starlight]

^ 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.

[ColdplayBirdsFly]

^ 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)

[Starlight]

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

[caru_Politik]

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...

[huntjd]

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

[Shaftell]

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

[ColdplayBirdsFly]

^^^ 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:)

[Marisa]

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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YiUXl0TwR8


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

[Marisa]

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[ColdplayBirdsFly]

^ 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.
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Anyway, I Love the song and video for "Well Thought Out Twinkles"
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlsO-JSA2pc

[starsshine715]

Has anyone heard the new single yet?

YouTube - "Panic Switch" Silversun Pickups [Swoon Album]

[Dejan]

“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.

[IneedYou23]

I like their song "Lazy Eye"Awesome song!

[Marisa]

Ooo really excited for the new album! The single sounds familiar but fresh.
Please oh please let them tour nearby!

[Dejan]

marisa where do you live ?
these are their live dates,for the moment:

Mar 20 2009 9:00P
guitar hero party @ stubb’s Austin, Texas
Mar 21 2009 11:45P
sxsw 2009 @ antone’s austin, Texas
Apr 3 2009 9:30P
club nme @ koko london
Apr 4 2009 8:00P
proud gallery london
Apr 6 2009 7:00P
barfly london
Apr 7 2009 7:00P
borderline london
Apr 12 2009 10:00P
glasshouse pomona, California
Apr 17 2009 8:00P
coachella @ empire polo field Indio, California
May 25 2009 8:00P
sasquatch 2009 @ the gorge amphitheatre George, Washington

[Marisa]

Unfortunately, I'm not in the area for those dates!

If only I live in Cali, where they formed the band. Would be pretty sweet to see them at SXSW as well.

:( I live in the mitten, Michigan. *sobs*

[Dejan]

PANIC SWITCH is addictive,i fuckin love this new song!!

[Dejan]

YouTube - Silversun Pickups Offical Panic Switch

[ivet]

I've only ever heard of "Well Thought Out Twinkles" & "Lazy Eye" .... those song are incredible!!!

[majgirl]

Lazy eye captured my interest in a big way, but I wasn't as impressed with the rest of the album. I'll definitely be checking out the new one though.

[DreamOutLoud]

i love these guys! I saw them open for Snow Patrol in 2007 and had never heard of them until then. They knocked my socks off seeing them live!

I love the new song, Panic Switch.

[Dejan]

the new album is in streaming on mtv:
http://www.mtv.com/music/the_leak/silversun_pickups/swoon/

[nobodyseditwaseasy08]

Lazy eye captured my interest in a big way, but I wasn't as impressed with the rest of the album. I'll definitely be checking out the new one though.

listen to rusted wheel, thats the best song off the first record, and check out kissing families,,,, panic switch is a great song, just downloaded it.

[starsshine715]

Anyone here gotten the new album yet? What do you think?

[Dejan]

Anyone here gotten the new album yet? What do you think?

it's a FANTASTIC record!

[nobodyseditwaseasy08]

^ yea if you like the first album you will like this one....tracks 1-7 are very good

[Dejan]

^ yea if you like the first album you will like this one....tracks 1-7 are very good

I got the ep and the debut album.
I'm a big fan of their music

[nobodyseditwaseasy08]

I got the ep and the debut album.
I'm a big fan of their music

i was talking to the person that asked if swoon was any good.

[Dejan]

SWOON is superb

[starsshine715]

^Couldn't agree more. I've been listening to it ever since it was released!:D

Anyway, the band is performing "Panic Switch" on Letterman tonight (July 28th). It airs at 11:35pm on CBS.
Make sure to tune in!;)

[Dejan]

check this out:
http://www.shockhound.com/videos/665-shock-sessions--silversun-pickups---part-2

[starsshine715]

^That was so awesome!! Thanks for posting Dejan!;)

Hey, does anyone know when the vid for "Substitution" is coming out?

[starsshine715]

Dangerbird just released a behind the scenes look at the video shoot for "Substitution." The official video premieres next Tues. on MTV.

Here it is:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eYlK-kJSRs

[starsshine715]

The Official video for "Substitution!":dance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcwX2TnsTPE

[Josh42]

I had the opportunity to see them live...but their new album was mediocre so I passed it up.

[Dejan]

I had the opportunity to see them live...but their new album was mediocre so I passed it up.

mediocre my ass!

[Notion]

I like their song Panic Switch :thinking:

[Notion]

the video and song Panic Switch

are bad ass!

[iPsy]

I might be seeing Placebo on December 11th and Silversun Pickups are supporting! :D

[jg729]

I saw them when they played the Toronto VFest. Hadn't heard anything by them before seeing them, didn't know who they were........but even then they were good. Really heavy stage presence.

And Little Lover's So Polite is too damn catchy. haha

[Dejan]

Nominations for the 52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards were announced tonight, and we’re proud to report that Silversun Pickups are up for Best New Artist! For a complete list of nominations, head to GRAMMY.com. The GRAMMY Nominations Concert Live airs on CBS tonight at 9pm on the west coast. The 52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards will be held on January 31, 2010, at Staples Center in Los Angeles.

[Dejan]

sspu to join muse on 2010 us tour

Silversun Pickups announced as main support for Muse's 2010 US tour:



February 27, 2010 @ Gwinnett Center, Atlanta, GA


March 1, 2010 @ Patriot Center, Fairfax, VA


March 5, 2010 @ Madison Square Garden, New York, NY


March 6, 2010 @ TD Banknorth Garden, Boston, MA


March 13, 2010 @ Palace Of Auburn Hills, Detroit, MI


April 5, 2010 @ The E Center, Salt Lake City, UT

Tickets on sale Saturday, December 12th

[Notion]

maybe they'll come near me soon

I'm really liking Substitution lately

[bee_panda]

I like their music! :D

[Notion]

Silversun Pickups to Perform "Substitution" on Conan O' Brian's Show on NBC Next monday(December 22nd)!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

[Notion]

I've got every one of their songs now(even bonus tracks) and I have to say...

Brilliant.
There's not one song I don't like
I love all of them

I also heard their next single is "The Royal We"
One of the best on Swoon in my opinion

Singles

2007
"Future Foe Scenarios"
"Well Thought Out Twinkles"
"Lazy Eye"

2008
"Little Lover's So Polite"

2009
"Panic Switch"
"Substitution"

2010
"The Royal We"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swoon_%28Silversun_Pickups_album%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silversun_Pickups

[fietssleutel]

How is Swoon compared to Carnavas?

[Notion]

I'm liking Carnavas quite a lot lately

[Notion]

"The Royal We" has charted at 39 on the Top U.S. Alternative Songs

[Notion]

Here are their performances on Jimmy Kimmel from a few weeks back in case you missed them

YouTube- Silversun Pickups Perform "Panic Switch"

YouTube- Silversun Pickups Perform "The Royal We"

[Dejan]

I'm liking Carnavas quite a lot lately

swoon is a great album,but carnavas is better to me.
Some of their best songs are on this record

YouTube- Silversun Pickups - Rusted Wheel (Live at Last Call with Carson Daly)

YouTube- Silversun Pickups - Three Seed - The Fillmore, SF

Carnavas is a fantastic record from the first to the last song,and the ep is fuckin good too.

[Notion]

Yea Pikul is brilliant, I love Kissing Families, Booksmart Devil, Comeback Kid and Creation Lake

[Dejan]

Swoon sold 214,000 copies (i don't know if only in u.s. or worldwide),but its pretty impressive in these times with the illegal downloading.

[Notion]

I like how they make their songs really deep

[MariePeter18]

Yeah me too.
I just love the basslines. The one in Panic Switch is so catchy and cool to play. I really admire Nikki.

[Notion]

I love Nikki <33

[MariePeter18]

She's kickass. So is the rest of the group.

[Notion]

Yea the drummer is probably one of the best drummers EVER

[MariePeter18]

Well I wouldn't say this, yes he's awesome, but not the best I've heard, let's say.

[Notion]

true
we all have opinions

[Notion]

http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2010-02-08-silversun08_ST_N.htm

Here's an article I just found on the website

[MariePeter18]

They're so cool. I love how they are so humble.

[Notion]

They're so cool. I love how they are so humble.

I agree and same here

[nerdykid89]

I absolutely love the Silversun Pickups. Kickass band. Both Carnavas and Swoon are simply amazing CDs. Although there have been many bands before them with the shoegaze/fuzz style, they are the ones that introduced me to it.

I'm so disappointed that I can't go see them with Muse for their North American tour. I'll be in school when they're near. And it sucks because SSPU and Muse are two of my favorite bands :(

[MariePeter18]

Aww :( But what doesn it change that you're in school? can't you miss a day?

[nerdykid89]

I'd love to miss a day, but it's although I said it was "near", it means I'd have to do some traveling and that would take a few days... and I have about two tests that week. Unfortunately, the program I'm in is rigorous. If only they had waited a week more, I would've been on my spring vacation.

I probably wouldn't sleep for a week after going to muse/sspu :P

[MariePeter18]

I'd love to miss a day, but it's although I said it was "near", it means I'd have to do some traveling and that would take a few days... and I have about two tests that week. Unfortunately, the program I'm in is rigorous. If only they had waited a week more, I would've been on my spring vacation.

I probably wouldn't sleep for a week after going to muse/sspu :P

Oh I understand :( Well it sucks for you, I am sorry :(:hug: