It’s a journey. A big throbbing wall of noise greets you, as you pack your bags with wonder. Leave your bags behind, abandon all thoughts for, that big wall will soon be shredded and before you know it you will be submerged in the melody.
Silversuns pickups or SSPS as they like to be called weave an aural web; you can wander around for hours at a stretch, unraveling the many layers of sound. What you look for determines what you find. There you are on your way, lost in the steady tempo preparing for the time ahead and so you should buckle up, for it’s a long ride, stretching to nearly seven and a half minutes.
The song slacks and drags in parts. This journey could have been and honestly should have been tighter, taut and shorter (considering this era of 2 minute sagas!). The Silversuns sound too much like The Smashing Pumpkins for their own good; Brian Aubert’s vocal resembling a certain Boy Scout version of Billy Corgan.
Back to the ride, where the steady melody, which is the hallmark of the song degenerates into guttural wailing shakes you out of your cocoon. The melody fades into the background so if you were on an airplane…this would have been your pocket of turbulence. But then somebody takes control and lands it …before running it into another wall of noise!
The redeeming feature is the melody, that’s why you hopped on in the first place. Don’t bother looking out of the windows for the lyrics just don’t make much sense. Melancholy sounds and strange lyrics aren’t great bedfellows especially when you are looking for an escape!
Lazy eye is not a great song but it is a good song, like a trip which is good while it lasts but which you will forget as soon as it is over, Lazy Eye is good while it lasts but it will certainly not leave any lasting impressions on you.
Rating: *****
Reviewed by Pradster
you know i really like SSPS “well thought out twinkles” & “little lover’s so polite” ; I find these better then lazy eye. Specially second one creates a web around you & you enjoy that .
I completely agree that the SSPS are reminiscent of Smashing Pumpkins but I disagree with this song not having a lasting impression. As soon as I hear the guitar intro I am put into a nostalgic and hopeful state. It is one of my most favourite songs to bike around the city to and I believe will be so for a long long time. I guess it all depends on who is listening and what type emotions or memories you associate with any song that really defines making a lasting impression on someone. Just a thought. “I’ve been waiting, I’ve been waiting for this moment all my life but its not quite right”, how can this not leave a lasting impression? We have all been there haven’t we?
I stumbled upon this review two years after it was written, and I’m happy I did. I’m happy you were 100% wrong about Lazy Eye leaving a lasting impression.
Here we are, nearly at the end of 2008 and Lazy Eye is going stronger than ever. Harmonix even included it in Rock band 2. Because of this, more people than ever will get the chance to discover this amazing band.
best of luck to SSPU; you are all fantastic musicians and artists and I can’t wait for you to explode and sell a million copies. It’s coming.
I am happy I have been proven wrong Ron, though I think I love Melatonin much more than i like lazy eye!
Thats not to say lazy eye is a bad song, totally my opinion!
yeah silversun is my all time favorite indie band. they’re amazing in concert :]
(and if you look on their website im pretty positive its sspu… not ’ssps’ …)
I’m a huge sspu fan, and lazy eye is no doubt a good song, but “common reactor” is their crowning achievement in my opinion. Its brilliant textures are more reminiscent of my bloody valentine than smashing pumpkins, and its catchy melody gets stuck in your head for days (which is a good thing.)