Panic Switch – Silversun Pickups
Indie Rock band, Silversun pickups released their second album, Swoon , on April 14th. The song Panic Switch is their first release from the album.
The song begins with an awesome Jeff Beck meets Smashing Pumpkins distorted fuzz guitar lead that can riff an entire fantasy world of Alice-like gigantic imagination and emotion around your head.
And then Brian Aubert’s vocals kick in. Young, naked and deliciously adrogynous. His vocals lick the fret frantic energy with controlled deliberation as the guitars and bass spin into cyclones of sonic thrills and distortion swells around him.
Parts of the song is reminiscent of the infamous riff on Arctic Monkey’s When the Sun Goes Down.
This is a song that has irresistible TNL energy.
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Drowning – Saving Abel
This song is taken off the band’s 2008 debut album that spawned charttopping hits like Addicted, but the track has so much more maturity than its college-rock predecessors that it almost could’ve been from another album.
Guitarists Null and Scott Bartlett snap out the melody with the gusto of Shine Down, while vocalist Jared Weeks sings with such Creed like conviction. The song is fast, reckless and loud enough to be identified as rock but shares an underlying country tradition that is a dead give away on the origins of these Mississippi boys.
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