Swoon

by Silversun Pickups

Swoon cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 14 April 2009
  • Label: Dangerbird
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 51:13
  • Community rating: 3.75/5 from 7 ratings

Artists on this release: Dave Cooley

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Following their acclaimed debut, this sophomore effort expands their fuzzed-out, 1990s-indebted alternative rock sound with orchestral string arrangements and noticeably cleaner, stadium-ready production. Propelled by the massive success of the single 'Panic Switch', the album balances Brian Aubert's raspy, androgynous vocals against heavy walls of Smashing Pumpkins-esque guitar distortion. It solidified their status as alternative radio mainstays for the turn of the decade.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, atmospheric, noisy, fuzz, wall-of-sound

Tracklist

  1. There's No Secrets This Year (5:33)
  2. The Royal We (4:47)
  3. Growing Old is Getting Old (5:53)
  4. It's Nice to Know You Work Alone (4:46)
  5. Panic Switch (5:43)
  6. Draining (4:55)
  7. Sort Of (5:27)
  8. Substitution (4:41)
  9. Catch & Release (4:39)
  10. Surrounded (4:45)

Credits

  • Silversun Pickups - primary artist, written-by
  • Will Canzoneri - arranged by [string arrangements]
  • Darren Waterston - artwork [features paintings by]
  • Brian Aubert - performer
  • Christopher Guanlao - performer
  • Joe Lester - performer
  • Nikki Monninger - performer

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