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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.
Recording information: Beer Wine Fish, Echo Park, CA; Grand Master, Hollywood, CA; Sandbox, Hollywood, CA; Sound Factory, Hollywood, CA; Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA.
Silversun Pickups: Brian Aubert, Nikki Monninger, Christopher Guanlao, Joe Lester.
Audio Mixer: Tony Hoffer.
Rolling 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." Silversun Pickups Carnavas Songs Carnavas Music Review Average Rating: (5 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews 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) 
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 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)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 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)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 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.
Submitted by Allison (Land of Music)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 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.
Submitted by Ricky (South Jersey, New Jersey.)
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Purchase Carnavas CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Arcade Fire Funeral CD (2004)
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This Montreal ensemble's fiery debut is marked by surging guitars, soulful strings, driving drums, brilliant bass lines, and the quavering vocals of married couple Win Butler and Regine Chassagne. The group's song structures careen through a vast territory of musical and personal history, with lyrics warm with memories of childhood neighborhoods and deceased loved ones, resulting in an alternating current of joy and sadness.
Favorably compared to the Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, and Broken Social Scene, the Arcade Fire's sound seems to come from a lifetime of listening to the Cure, Talking Heads, Elvis Costello, and many others--even a dose of soul gets worked ...
| | Silversun Pickups Pikul CD (2005)
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While nowhere near as immediate as their 2006 grunge-pop opus Carnavas, this EP from 2005, enigmatically named for and dedicated to a friend of the band's (and pronounced "pie-kull"), shows Silversun Pickups developing their Smashing Pumpkins worship into a formula all their own. The difference is in the subtlety and restraint of their arrangements; whereas Billy Corgan has trademarked his whisper-to-a-scream dynamics, the Pickups keep the buildups fluid and the crescendos controlled. Oftentimes the listener may find themselves wishing for more explosive release, but things are kept discreet here; after all, it's easier to effectively follow the quiet-loud-quiet tactics of the Pixies or Nirvana, much more tricky to keep things understated yet filled with tension. Only on the leadoff track "Kissing Families" does lead singer/guitarist Brian Aubert seethe with barely contained rage, "Everything is connected and beautiful, ...
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Sonically, the disc has a Beatlesque anything-goes attitude and attention to arrangement details. "Summer Skin" is driven by a military-style snare ...
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On 2007's BOXER, the National's second full-length album for the venerable Beggars Banquet label, the Brooklyn-based indie-rock act follows up the lauded ALLIGATOR ...
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| | Guided By Voices Hold On Hope CD (1995) Limited Edition; Extended Play
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Those familiar with songwriter and lead singer Rob Pollard's quirky genius already know how inescapably catchy his tunes can be, how disorienting and delightful his shape-shifting persona, and how hard his band can rock. They also probably know how irrepressibly prolific he is, which is where this excellent six-disc box set--which collects only a sliver of GBV's monolithic vault of material--comes in.
The discs are divided by function and/or source, with one offering up a 32-track greatest-hits sampler, another selecting b-sides and rarities, another delivering demos and outtakes (most of which were previously unreleased), another containing an in-concert performance, and yet another ...
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Track Listing of songs: Fiakerlied; Das silberne Kannderl; Zwa Fiedeln, a Klampfn, a Maurerklavier; Das ist Wien, die Stadt meiner Träume; A klans Leterndel; Lanner-Musik; Geh', Peperl, plausch net; Mei Muatterl war a Weanerin; I marschier' mit mein' Duli-Dulieh; Mei Alte sauft soviel wia i; I hab' mir für Grinzig ein'n Dienstmann engagiert; Der Wiener Troubador; Wenn der Herrgott net will; I hab' die schönen Maderln net erfunden; Jetzt trink'n ma noch a Flascherl Wein; Wien, Wien nur du allein; Fiakerlied; Es wird ein Wein sein; Es steht ein alter Nußbaum; Wenn ich den Schlüssel hätt' zu Petrus' Himmelstür; Mei Muatterl war a Weanerin; Wenn der Herrgott net will; Erst wenn's aus wird sein...!; Secht's Leut'In, so war's anno 30 in Wien; ...
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The critics are raving about this strong self-titled debut album release. In fact, the album was just nominated for "2009 Album Of The Year" by Port Folio Magazine and is considered a must have for any modern blues lover! The fact that the title song, Planet Full Of Blues, has remained on the National ...
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