SILVERSUN PICKUPS INVITE YOU TO THEIR NECK OF THE WOODS
New album produced by Jacknife Lee available in Australia May 4, 2012
Dangerbird Records and Warner Music Australia are excited to announce the release of the new record by the Grammy-nominated Silversun Pickups, Neck of the Woods, on May 4. The record was produced by the Grammy Award-winning Jacknife Lee (U2, Weezer, REM, Snow Patrol), and the song Bloody Mary (Nerve Endings) will be the first single.
Lead singer/guitarist Brian Aubert told Spin magazine that the new songs sound “like a horror movie…. [2009’s] Swoon was more about what I was feeling at that particular time, whereas with this one, I wanted to see what built me. It was learning why I am the way I am.”
Aubert also told Spin that drummer Christopher Guanlao steals the show. “We really wanted to play with drums as textures. We played around with drums coming in here and there and building atmosphere, which guitars usually do.”
But he went on to joke, “I’m not going to let the others have all the fun. It’s still a rock record. We wanted to have moments of explosions like we’ve done in the past, but we didn’t want them to carry the whole song. There’s something a little bit psychotic sounding that we really like and we didn’t want to fill it entirely with big guitars.”
Silversun Pickups (Aubert, Guanlao, bassist/vocals Nikki Monninger and keyboardist Joe Lester) have sold over one million records worldwide. Their first EP, Pikul, was released in 2005 and whilst it hinted at great things to come, no one was quite prepared for the explosion of the band’s debut LP, Carnavas. Released in 2006, Carnavas was the #1 Alternative and Independent record for four consecutive weeks in the USA.
In 2009, Silversun Pickups followed up with the equally powerful Swoon, the record debuted at #7 on the Billboard Top 200 and was in the chart for over 22 weeks on the strength of the #1 Modern Rock smash, Panic Switch. In Australia, Swoon peaked at #14 on the national ARIA album chart and claimed the coveted feature album position on triple j.
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