Silversun Pickups from god knows when
I’ve really developed a taste for Silversun Pickups. Pay attention especially to the precision of the opening riffs of “It’s Nice to Know You Work Alone”, which are unusually precise by Silversun’s standards. For some reason, this reminds me of some of the alt-rock that flirted with the edges of grunge back in the early 90s, but that could just be senility creeping in.
Brian Aubert Smiles Upon The World!
The one thing I’m a little conflicted about is Aubert’s voice. It seems more limited in register and tone than the band is as a whole. Likely, he’s just an unrepentant negative Nelly like myself, but I like my music to have some frenetic happiness from time to time, to express a complete emotional range, and Aubert keeps Silversun from doing that for me. (Brian, if you do happen upon this — I’m sorry, but it’s generally true!)
But look — despite his Corganesque fugue expression in the band line-up, he can look happy!
UPDATE: Substitution is actually a reasonably cheery song — check out the video here.
