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Swoon by Silversun Pickups

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Tracklist

    Track     Duration Listeners
1 There's No Secrets This Year 5:34 91,844
2 The Royal We 4:47 95,358
3 Growing Old Is Getting Old 5:54 86,674
4 It's Nice To Know You Work Alone 4:46 79,925
5 Panic Switch 5:42 143,712
6 Draining 4:55 74,867
7 Sort of 5:28 80,084
8 Substitution 4:39 90,045
9 Catch & Release 4:40 40,054
10 Surrounded (Or Spiraling) 4:46 62,922
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About this album

Dangerbird Records (2011) Released: 5 Jan 2011 10 tracks (51:11)
Swoon is the second album by Los Angeles band Silversun Pickups. The album was produced by Dave Cooley, who had worked with the band on their first album, Carnavas. Recording began in July . The name of the album comes from a line in the lead in to the second track, “The Royal We”.

After a completing their Carnavas/Pikul tour in Christmas , the band took a break until February of the next year. They began recording in their own studio named The Dark. During the recording process the band laid down as many as 17 songs which were eventually cut down to 10 for the album. On February 17, the band posted a list of the songs expected to be on Swoon on their MySpace blog.

The album was released on April 15, . The first single released was Panic Switch. On April 6, the track There’s No Secrets This Year was released as a single on various online music stores. The bonus track Currency Of Love was released exclusively on iTunes with pre-orders in the U.S. and Canada, but was issued as a regular album track in other countries. The song Ne Plus Ultra was released as a on the single Panic Switch.

Two tracks off of the album, “Panic Switch” and It’s Nice To Know You Work Alone, have been released as downloadable content for Guitar Hero: World Tour as part of a track pack released on April 9.

Artwork
As with Carnavas, the album’s packaging features the artwork of Darren Waterston, this time using his 2008 piece St.Clair as the basis for the cover art. The inside packing also features Waterston’s pieces Disembodiment and Reverberations. All paintings are from his collection entitled The Flowering.
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  • SergeantLynch

    My goodness, this is really mediocre sometimes even plain bad, cant believe this band made the brilloant carnavas. The opener and growing old are awesome though

    13 days ago

  • indie777

    Music for 14 year old girls

    March 2012

  • Nerick

    Nothing revolutionary, just one of the best album of the last decade.

    January 2012

  • Nerick

    Damn this is good !!!

    January 2012

  • zegustavu

    A brilliant album.

    August 2011

  • bigkajamma

    Don't like the direction they took here. It's still enjoyable and good but they should expand more on there debut album sound or explore more shoegazey influences.

    February 2011

  • Kiwatari

    My favourite 2009 album. No doubt!!!!

    February 2011

  • braydee

    A brilliant album.

    January 2011

  • baumandm

    Awesome.

    November 2010

  • Hwacha

    Man, this album has really grown on me. I freaking love it. I've gotta look into their other stuff.

    October 2010

  • searsi

    really awesome, have it on vinyl!

    October 2010

  • earthcrossing

    Incredible album, and boredstiff that's why you shouldn't listen to the radio. haha. i know that sounds bad doesn't it? but life is so good for me with music, because the only songs that get overplayed are ones *I* want to overplay. hehe

    September 2010

  • Gallagher390

    listening to the last song.. fuck this is a good album. every single song is amazing!!

    September 2010

  • flannery710

    pikul >>>>>>>>> this

    September 2010

  • boredstiff-

    i hate this album, mainly because I hear panic switch every time I turn on the radio.

    August 2010

  • Pimmis

    Just... Incredible.

    June 2010

  • Hwacha

    Very cool. Great base useage. <3

    May 2010

  • ricegirlsleeps

    I can't stop listening this fucking amazing album

    May 2010

  • k___B

    Wicked <3

    March 2010

  • flannery710

    Except Carnavas. And Pikul.

    March 2010
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