Pikul by Silversun Pickups

Silversun Pickups
Pikul
2005
Indie
Dangerbird

1. Kissing Families
2. Comeback Kid
3. Booksmart Devil
4. The Fuzz
5. Creation Lake
6. ...All The Go Inbetweens
7. [Blank]
8. Sci-Fi Lullaby
(Also included is a 1630x1462 album cover .jpeg)

The fuzz in my head grows
It's already so low
The fuzz in my head stands
It's already all too clear
So much for losing track of time

"The Fuzz"

Pikul (pronounced pie-kull) is the first EP that I've uploaded to Continuous Hit Music. I'm not usually an EP guy. I like my music to last a long time without interruption. But this is a great little bite-sized peice of music that I felt the need to share. Since it's a short album, I'll keep my summary pretty short for your sake.

Silversun Pickups are not one of my favorite bands. They're very good, but I was really underwhelmed by their first full-length album, Carnavas, and I can only listen to them when I'm in a certian mood. Apparently their second album (Swoon) has very recently made it's way onto the internet to great praises. I haven't heard it yet, but I plan to soon. Pikul is reguarded pretty unanimously as being their best work. It features a cellist, which really adds to the more rockin' songs like "Comeback Kid."

These guys get labeled indie everywhere I've read about them, but I would describe them as playing a new style of grunge that is pretty unique to the band. They have a keyboard player, the aformentioned cellist, and a female background vocalist who lends her voice to the lead part in "Creation Lake." Their lone guitarist (who has a pretty impressive pedalboard, and puts it to good use) is able to fill the empty space very well for playing in a band with sudden heavy freakout sessions. Great tone and heavy fuzz sound, and good use of subtle but frequent use of digital delay.

Pikul is a nice peice of music. Not something I can listen to all the time, but when I'm in the mood, it's perfect. Very unique sounding band.

Click here to download (80.94 MB)

The 7th track is 11 minutes of silence, to make "Sci-Fi Lullaby" a hidden track. It used to be 16 tracks, but since I'm such a nice guy, I condensed it into one cohesive track for you.

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