Silversun Pickups - Swoon
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Album Review
Release date: 05 January 2011
Album review: Silversun Pickups
Swoon
A weird thing has been happening recently. Whales have started beaching themselves, committing suicide if you like, in their hundreds. Eighty – 80! – hurled themselves on to the sands in Australia a couple of weeks back and died by the score as helpless humans fruitlessly tried to roll them back into the briny depths. But it’s not just happening there, which begs the question: what gives...
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- There's No Secrets This Year
- The Royal We
- Growing Old Is Getting Old
- It's Nice To Know You Work Alone
- Panic Switch
- Draining
- Sort of
- Substitution
- Catch & Release
- Surrounded (Or Spiraling)
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Silversun Pickups - Swoon: Wikipedia Album Entry
Swoon is the second album by Los Angeles alternative rock band Silversun Pickups. The album was produced by Dave Cooley, who had worked with the band on their first album, Carnavas. Recording began in July 2008. The name of the album comes from a line in the lead in to the second track, "The Royal We".
After a completing their Carnavas/Pikul tour in Christmas 2007, the band took a break until February of the next year. They began recording in their own studio named The Dark. During the recording process the band laid down as many as 17 songs which were eventually cut down to 10 for the album. On February 17, the band posted a list of the songs expected to be on Swoon on their MySpace blog.
The album was released on April 15, 2009. The first single released was Panic Switch. On April 6, the track There's No Secrets This Year was released as a single on various online music stores. The bonus track Currency Of Love was released exclusively on iTunes with pre-orders in the U.S. and Canada, but was issued as a regular album track in other countries. The song Ne Plus Ultra was released as a b-side on the single Panic Switch.
Two tracks off of the album, "Panic Switch" and It's Nice To Know You Work Alone, have been released as downloadable content for Guitar Hero: World Tour as part of a track pack released on April 9.
Artwork
As with Carnavas, the album's packaging features the artwork of Darren Waterston, this time using his 2008 piece St.Clair as the basis for the cover art. The inside packing also features Waterston's pieces Disembodiment and Reverberations. All paintings are from his collection entitled The Flowering.
Reception
Like Carnavas, Swoon received mostly positive reviews from critics. It accumulated a score of 72 out of 100 in Metacritic, based on 13 reviews. The album reached the seventh spot on the Billboard 200 with 43,000 copies sold in its first week, while Carnavas peaked only at number 80 on the Billboard 200.
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Silversun Pickups - Swoon Lyrics
Silversun Pickups - There's No Secrets This Year Lyrics
Who would know
all the reasons you're alone
if the seeds were planted firm my dear
would the banshees tear it all apart
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Silversun Pickups - Catch and Release Lyrics
Part of me
Want to live in a fantasy
Quietly
Show you everything youâll ever need
Silversun Pickups - Panic Switch Lyrics
Time
It's never worth my time
Blue shine
Bleeds into my eyes
Silversun Pickups - Surrounded (Or Spiraling) Lyrics
Remember when you were the hunted.
Remember how I swallowed you in.
Remember the rewards shimmering on the floor
off the plastic chandelier.
Silversun Pickups - Sort Of Lyrics
Do you think I'm sort of alive?
Should I set these motives aside?
Do I feel? Well sort of, but not
When you walk your body through mine
Silversun Pickups - Growing Old Is Getting Old Lyrics
So we all
Are growing old
And it's getting old
Silversun Pickups - The Royal We Lyrics
We are ready for the siege,
we are armed up to the teeth
Be careful how you live and breathe.
release what's brewing underneath.
Silversun Pickups - Substitution Lyrics
There's a vulture perching right off screen
And it's bitter and whispers chaotic things
And it reached in quick ain't it worrying
It's so easy to see, everyone can agree, stop listening
Silversun Pickups - It's Nice To Know You Work Alone Lyrics
It's the beauty of confession in the sound when the levees break
And all the air is wrong, wrong
Redesigning a connection, a composition painted on my face
With a smile drawn on, on
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Silversun Pickups - Draining Lyrics
you ask me to be stone again,
been waiting out here for a while,
at least the wait could be the end,
but not likely,
