Silversun Pickups - Carnavas.

1. Melatonin
2. Well Thought Out Twinkles
3. Checkered Floor
4. Little Lover's So Polite
5. Future Foe Scenarios
6. Waste It On
7. Lazy Eye
8. Rusted Wheel
9. Dream At Tempo 119
10. Three Seed
11. Common Reactor


For a band to come along and leave their footprints deeply embedded in my heart via JUST one song alone is a huge feat that rarely occurs. Silversun Pickups did just that, and not only did they leave their footprints, they also etched their name on my heart and planted their catchy songs in my eardrums to blossom like a tree. Or flower, is probably more accurate.

For everybody's pleasure, I included the track listing. I think that's a nifty idea, at least then people can be all 'oh! I know what song she must be talking about!' now. Hooray.

The beginning of Melatonin has an almost Smashing Pumpkins-esque feel about it. Nothing could be bad about that! Although I am quick to argue when people call them the new Smashing Pumpkins, because they are not, and don't sound that much like them in my opinion, but this song does have an SP feel to it.
Well Thought Out Twinkles is ridiculously infectious, and has a video clip to match. You really must watch it. Then again, I am a sucker for videos in that sort of style. Listen to this song, and if the guitar riff at the beginning does NOT get firmly implanted in your head for days on end, then I will denounce the claim of ridiculously infectiousness. Although, when I think about it, I probably won't. The bass solo part is ace. A lot of SSPU's songs have great bass.

Future Foe Scenarios is insanely good. Oh goodness look at my adjectives today! Let's see how many more I can use.. It's a fucking brilliant song. Brian's vocals seem so much more emotional and heartfelt in this song than in any others. I think it's beautifully written. The lyrics are wonderfully witty and clever. Adjective, adjective, adjective! Brilliantly wonderfully masterful! This song is perfect.

Waste It On has a good bass intro. Scratch that. The bass throughout is ace. I like Nikki as a bassist. It is possible that I am biased in saying so due to the fact that this band is wonderful, but I do think she's a nifty bassist. The fact that their songs aren't afraid to let the bass through the wall of noise produced by the other instruments is just great.

Lazy Eye is the song that propelled them straight into my heart. I've heard the EP version, which is slower, but the album version is better. There isn't much difference except for the speed, and the vocals are a little different, but it's still the same great song.

Last but not least; Dream At Tempo 119. Purely fucking beautiful beginning for a god damn brilliant song. I've still yet to try to come up with a meaning for this song, but really who gives a shit? All that matters is that it's highly aurally pleasing and has Nikki's backing vocals littered throughout it. It's cute.

She said don't open your eyes..

Please give this band a chance. You won't regret it, and if you do, then I'm sorry you have poor taste in music.