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Silversun Pickups: Brian Aubert, Nikki Monninger, Christopher Guanlao, Joe Lester.
Audio Mixer: Tony Hoffer.
Recording information: Beer Wine Fish, Echo Park, CA; Grand Master, Hollywood, CA; Sandbox, Hollywood, CA; Sound Factory, Hollywood, CA; Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA.
The Los Angeles band's debut full length blends pop smarts, propulsive, grungy rhythms, and the sensitive vocals of its singer Brian Aubert. Combining elements of Smashing Pumpkins and fey Britpop with a wide-eyed innocence, songs like "Little Lover's So Polite" and "Well Thought Out Twinkles" exude an infectious, joyous energy that propels their hooks and choruses into the subconscious.
Carnavas, the debut full-length from L.A.'s Silversun Pickups, is the sort of record that brings something new to discover with each listen. Thus, listen one is as enjoyable as listen five or ten, but probably for entirely different reasons, since unique bits continuously appear from the band's dream haze of accessibly textured indie rock. From the grainy opening of "Melatonin" that blends into strikingly harmonized male/female vocals, the quartet immediately showcases their innate sense of melody amid textured atmospherics and layers of distortion and fuzz, which all come across as both bittersweet and enchanting. Silversun Pickups take the shimmering dream pop of My Bloody Valentine and filter it through '90s grunge instincts like that of the Smashing Pumpkins -- and it all combines to produce an album that, well, is really freaking good. Vocals are both haunting and sweet, as lead singer Brian Aubert somehow manages to sound like a cross between the Goo Goo Dolls' Robby Takac and the Get Up Kids' Matt Pryor -- in a good way. And for every moment of ominous intensity, the band further manipulates their ethereal antics into moments of pure shimmering redemption. "Future Foe Scenarios" is urgent in a completely controlled way that makes the vocals come off even fiercer over the song's driving distortion, while exhilarating and spacious cuts like "Lazy Eye" and "Common Reactor" materialize out of clouds of hazy guitars and pensive keyboard with dynamic force that never loses its direction. Though an extremely rewarding listen, proceed with caution: once put into a stereo, Carnavas may become stuck inside for quite a while. ~ Corey AparRolling Stone (p.94) - "[The band] show all that's possible when the California sun shines on indie-rock shoegazers....The Pickups' grandiose rock owes a great deal to its Chicago forebears..."
Spin (p.85) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "By turns darkly fuzzy and brightly melodic, CARNAVAS is an auspicious record that manages to evoke a collaboration between Smashing Pumpkins and My Bloody Valentine."
Alternative Press (p.228) - "Always anchored with a friendly hook and sometimes even tender harmonies, CARNAVAS' dark/light tunes explode into a controlled chaos of distortion and white noise."
Magnet (p.108) - "Aubert's vocals are paisley-print detachment one moment and howling catharsis the next, while his insistent pop strumming devolves into waves of guitar and keyboard noise."
CMJ (p.5) - "This L.A. group takes the forlorn moods, sing-a-long choruses and stretched-out codas of current West Coast indie pop and takes them on a starship space ride."
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List Price $15.98 (You save $2.99)
Category Rock/Pop Albums, Rock CDs, Alternative
Label Dangerbird
Orig Year 2006
All Time Sales Rank   3660  
CD Universe Part number 7207409
Catalog number 20008
Discs 1
Release Date Jul 25, 2006
Studio/Live Studio
Mono/Stereo Stereo
Producer Dave Cooley; Tony Hoffer
Engineer Tom Biller
Personnel Nikki Monninger
Brian Aubert
Christopher Guanlao
Joe Lester
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Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample1.Melatonin  $0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample2.Well Thought Out Twinkles  $0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample3.Checkered Floor$0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample4.Little Lover's So Polite  $0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample5.Future Foe Scenarios  $0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample6.Waste It On  $0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample7.Lazy Eye$0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample8.Rusted Wheel  $0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample9.Dream at Tempo 119  $0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample10.Three Seed$0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample11.Common Reactor  $0.99

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5 stars Take a trip back
Yes it borrows from the Pumpkins, but who cares? This band provides waves of sonic bliss not heard since the original ecstatic days of the shoegazers. A must have.
Submitted by gvos (Chicago, IL) Verified Buyer
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5 stars Amazing
Great album. Spectacular follow-up to Pikul. It hasn't left my CD player since it came out 4 weeks ago.
Submitted by monty.m.mcalpine (Seattle, WA) Verified Buyer
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5 stars shiny spacy pop
to me it's. . .a bit of Garbage, Paramore, mix in a tad of Zwan(Billy Corgan's other band) and you get this. Great songs with a spacy pop feel. my faves are "Lazy Eye" and "Well Thought Out Twinkles". Enjoy it!
Submitted by careyc (KC, MO USA)
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5 stars A "Well Thought Out" Album
Silversun Pickups are an amazingly talented Indie band whose songs reverberate with "Muse"-like bass lines and pulsating anthems. Songs such as "Lazy Eye" and "Future Foe Scenarios" deliver a rougher and slicing edge, while others like "Three Seed" and "Rusted Wheel" possess a mysterious and shimmering quality. Perhaps the weakest song on the album is the closer, "Common Reactor" as it ends with a bizarre chain-saw/grating sound for the last 30 seconds. However, the band provides quite a diverse heap of songs which just solidly illustrates their worthwhile attempt to bring meaningful and different music to the world. Keep watch for them for this is a band with something special.
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5 stars Amazing... Great Guitar/Vocal/Electronic Work. Impressive!
This album is just amazing... as a guitarist I personally love all of the guitar work on this CD. I also love the vocals and electionics... my favorite songs are Lazy Eye and Future Foe Scenarios. I myself downloaded this CD but it's definitly worth buying, no lie.
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