Silversun Pickups

Silversun Pickups have announced that their much-anticipated fourth studio album, "Better Nature", will be released on September 25th via the band's own New Machine Recordings. "Better Nature" is preceded by the incandescent new single, "Nightlight," debuting August 6th. "Nightlight" will also arrive via an inspired video directed by renowned filmmaker Mark Pellington which will premiere simultaneously with the song. This album sees the band partnering once again with producer Jacknife Lee (U2, Two Door Cinema Club, Crystal Castles), with whom they so successfully collaborated on 2012's visionary "Neck Of The Woods".

The songs were created and crafted in Lee's Topanga studio, the band spontaneously building out from singer & guitarist Brian Aubert's deliberately spare songwriting demos. The result is fluid and freewheeling, "oozing," in Aubert's words, with heavily cranked guitars, propulsive rhythms, and seemingly infinite textures. GRAMMY(r) Award-winning mix engineer Alan Moulder (My Bloody Valentine, Nine Inch Nails, Royal Blood) brings maximum sonic power to the proceedings, but at the album's beating heart is Silversun Pickups' remarkably intuitive interplay, as ever providing panoramic musical counterpoint to Aubert's incisive, increasingly self-exploratory lyricism. Richer, warmer, and more evocative than anything in their prior canon, "Better Nature" is Silversun Pickups' most human music thus far.

Formed in 2002, Silversun Pickups consists of members Brian Aubert (guitar & vocals), Nikki Monninger (bass), Joe Lester (keyboards) and Christopher Guanlao (drums). The band is among the most dynamic and creative rock bands of the contemporary era, hailed far and wide for their inimitable merging of ethereal melodies and pure sonic force. From the opening indie rock salvo of 2005's "Pikul" EP to 2012's far-reaching "Neck Of the Woods", each successive release has seen the band boldly venture into uncharted terrain, bravely pushing their imagination and ability towards new and surprising summits. Ambitious and anthemic, tracks like "Panic Switch" and "Lazy Eye" have proven modern classics, a guarantee of rare danger and invention amidst the anodyne dross of post-millennial rock. What's more, the indefatigable quartet have made it their mission to bring their unique music to the people, touring the planet nearly non-stop to reach a devoted and ever-growing international fan following.

Silversun Pickups will be promoting "Better Nature" with a full North American tour to be unveiled soon. In the meantime, the band will make a number of special appearances, beginning with a headline performance at FM/94.9's Independence Jam, set for September 12th at Oceanside, CA's Junior Seau Pier Amphitheatre.

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