Silversun Pickups

Some terrible scene girl pictures with my point n' shoot Canon Powershot! These are the best of the worst from a music fan who could never call herself a photographer, even if she had a Nikon D90 weighing down her neck.

Basist Nikki Monninger sings with an ethereal, demure disposition, but she wails on the bass like nobody's business. Brian Aubert and drummer Christopher Guanlao delivered an impassioned, aggressive performance that would knock the Wayfarers off any indie listener.

The set was everything I expected and more. Where I anticipated a clean performance onstage, I didn't think it would be a near synonym of their mastered recordings. Even the chaos of synth breakdowns and mixing from Joe Lester and Tony Hoffer were organized.

Here's the set list, so kindly passed on to me by Nikki Monninger:

Growing Old is Getting Old

Well Thought Out Twinkles

Sort Of

There's No Secrets This Year

The Royal We

Little Lover's So Polite

It's Nice to Know You Work Alone

Future Foe Scenarios

Kissing Families

Catch and Release

Panic Switch

Lazy Eye

Total Eclipse of the Heart

So, after very little deliberation and argument with myself, I decided that passing up Manchester Orchestra and Silversun Pickups would be the most epically lame thing I did to wrap up the month. As a result, I am heading up to the gig with two friends tonight. Who knows if I'll make it home with enough sleep to fuel four classes the next day? We shall see.

Song of the Day

**9/28/09

Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye

------------------A windy, crisp, exquisite fall day. Now I can finally say that it is fall, because we've officially passed September twenty-whatever, so the leaves have calendar permission to change color and temperatures have the thumbs up to plummet each passing day.

Silversun Pickups snuck into my Itunes shuffle tonight. Ironic, because they're headlining a show in Tennessee tomorrow night with Manchester Orchestra playing as well. I would love to go to the show, if I wasn't poor and didn't have a mother-freaking 8 a.m. the next morning.

Alas, I can still listen to the trances of "Lazy Eye," with tunnel vision guitars and synth, not to mention Brain Aubert, who is one of the first frontmen I confidently categorize as an indie-rock singer (among others of course). "Lazy Eye" turns feedback away from its stereotypical noise into an ambient pleasure, an henceforth, I am drawn to it like a hipster to a steaming cup of chai. Take a sip of "Lazy Eye" from Carnavas.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-mxBDuRaZ8