Silversun Pickups need a couch to 'Swoon' onto

Speaking of flagship local indie rock bands, local fuzz fiends and inadvertent Lil' Wayne video peers Silversun Pickups have some details on their followup to their debut "Carnavas," which has sold a pretty astounding 350,000 copies so far. The new album, likely titled "Swoon," is due out early next year on Dangerbird with Dave Cooley again handling production duties in L.A. Early hints suggest that it will sport both the obligatory second-album string and horn arrangements, and if such a thing is possible, even more screaming on behalf of frontman Brian Aubert.

"It doesn't need to get quiet here because we'll have another song that will cover that," Aubert said in a  release today. "Doing that, we could really go into writing some really quiet things and in the same respect, very loud things. Even the heavier stuff on this record is much more moody, and it's really fun to be able to explore that."

"Swoon" will no doubt warrant another state of the union address on the L.A. rock scene, so we'll let you know of any further developments or clandestine Pickups appearances on local stages.

-- August Brown

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