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| Silversun Pickups - Carnavas |
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| November 2nd, 2006 16:00 |
 Christmas is not a fun holiday when you work in the retail sector. You ever heard of the phrase "Black Friday"? That is what retailers call the day after Thanksgiving. So much money is spent in the last six weeks of the year that you can operate at a loss all year long, and the holidays will put you back "in the black". So, as you can imagine, the pencil pushers at the home office become extremely interested in how I do my job for the remainder of the year. During these trying times, I take solace in life's simple pleasures: skateboarding, drinking, and listening to bands like Silversun Pickups. They have a not really all that new album out called Carnavas, and it's great.
Silversun Pickups is a quartet out of LA that makes music that can take you back in time. Back to a time when there was a subgenre known as shoegazer rock. The kings/queens of shoegaze were a band known as My Bloody Valentine, and they released a fucking classic album that still stands the test of time. Go get Loveless if you don't have it already. Goddamn thats a good record. But anywhoo, back to Silversun Pickups and their little album. Carnavas has a couple of the shoegazer qualities like fuzzed out guitars and dreamy melodies, and those qualities make up the foundation of their sound. But subsequent plays reveal more influences, like the heavy drive of early Smashing Pumpkins, or the smoked out vocals of Kim Deal ala The Breeders. That last comparison is weird considering the lead vocalist is male, but then again Kim Deal always did kinda sound like a dude.
So what do you get when you mix all these ingredients together? You get an album that has been in super heavy rotation in my car for the last month or so. Go buy Carnavas so that Silversun Pickups can afford to live in Silverlake for another month or two. And if you can find their debut EP, Pikul, get that too and burn me a copy.
silversunpickups.com
dangerbirdrecords.com
Roy Starin
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