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
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