From Silversun Pickups’ latest on their MySpace post, it seems the band is quite confident with their new material. Having thrown in some string and horns, must haves for any album, the groups seems to be exploring their own inner depths of songwriting while they finish up orchestrating their newest album Swoon, SSPUs were one of our most anticipated choices for our Top 20 Artists To Look Forward To in 2009. (studio pictures below).

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For those looking forward to this album a release date has now been set for April 14th. If you’re reading this and have no idea who SSPUs are, its time you picked up Carnavas. Seems Brian Aubert is saying much of the same before he released his last album such as “We worked our asses off”. We know you work your ass off, Brian, and we know it will be great… in the words of Aubert “only one thing is certain to us – we’re standing on top of a mountain that is of our own making, and we’re intent on enjoying the view from up here. ” Swoon will be out on Dangerbird Records on 4/14/09!

in the making of our second full length album, we’ve been lucky enough to work with a lot of the same talented people that helped us out in carnavas. darren waterston is one of them, and he is the shit. he was instrumental in giving carnavas a visual to our sound, and not to mention he has become a dear friend to us. since we’re on the topic of artwork, also returning is the very creative graphic designer sara cumings. she’s the one that gives our name some class. because of her, fonts will never be the same to us again. with their combined artistry, we’re confident that swoon, like carnavas, will be a breath of fresh air in the dying art form of album artwork.

tony hoffer is back in the studio mixing swoon. its great to have him back and we know the songs are in very good hands. he and dave cooley are working very hard to meet our mastering deadline at the end of this month. you couldn’t even imagine how many knobs are turned and frequencies embellished to make us sound pretty. its getting close to the finish line and we all await with baited breath…

its been almost a year to the day when we entered our rehearsal space to start work on a new album. and even though it easily feels like that was just yesterday, living with swoon every single day for a whole year is the duality. we worked our asses off, tried to push the right buttons, tried not to blow up too many recording studios (that one time wasn’t our fault). we tried to do something new and uncomfortable, yet have it be recognizable and reassuring. and throw in some strings and horns while we’re at it. whether we reached our goal to get to the highest peak of our own proverbial mount everest, or whether we’re balancing

precariously atop a heap of rubble which we’ve created – only one thing is certain to us – we’re standing on top of a mountain that is of our own making, and we’re intent on enjoying the view from up here.

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