Silversun Pickups’ 2015 album, Better Nature, is a slightly poppier, shinier version of the California quartet’s Indie Rock-meets-Shoegaze-at-the-Grunge-thrift-store ethic. But that doesn’t mean that the band has diverted a molecule of the energy of its core sound, which was in full evidence on its debut EP, 2005’s Pikul, and its subsequent breakthrough full-lengths — 2006’s scorching debut long-player, Carnavas, and 2009’s equally incendiary Swoon. The ennui-ridden and radio-friendly vibe of 2012’s Neck of the Woods set the stage for Better Nature’s upbeat melancholy and abrasive melodicism.
Last year’s Better Nature found Silversun Pickups entering several new territories. Besides being the quartet’s most electronically focused album to date, it was the band’s first to be financed through crowd-funding and the debut for its own label, New Machine Recordings, which the group created after spending its entire career on the indie imprint Dangerbird. Read more about the group in this week's Sound Advice.
Silversun Pickups play Bogart's Tuesday with Foals and Joywave. More info/tickets: bogarts.com .
