They are my new obses­sion.  Who are the Sil­ver­sun Pick­ups?  It’s okay to ask.  I didn’t know either until about a month ago.  I mean, I had heard of them, but I hadn’t heard them.  They are a band.  My hus­band, Jason, has been lis­ten­ing to them for quite a while.  He had two of their albums (are they called albums?  cds?) on iTunes, and I remem­ber see­ing the group’s name, but I didn’t stop to see what they played.  Then, he bought their newest cd called Swoon.

I still wasn’t all that inter­ested.  Then, one night after a La Leche League meet­ing, Swoon was on the stereo, and I started lis­ten­ing.  I lis­tened to the first sev­eral songs.  I got stuck on a song called Grow­ing Old is Get­ting Old.  I am sure I lis­tened to that one at least 20 times.  I started lis­ten­ing to the cd when I was cook­ing, when I was read­ing, when I was play­ing stu­pid online games.  It was so good.

I became a Face­book fan.  I fol­low them on Twit­ter, and then, I saw them on David Let­ter­man!  They were great.  They sang Panic Switch which is one of their more pop­u­lar songs.  I thought they did a very nice job.  The mix of music and voice seemed a lit­tle off to me at the begin­ning, but I thought they fin­ished well.

I have been telling every­one I know about this new band I just dis­cov­ered (a year or so after my hus­band, whoops).  One ques­tion I haven’t really been able to answer is who do they sound like?  That may be one of my favorite things about them.  They don’t really sound like any­one.  They sound like them­selves.  On their Wikipedia page, there are a few bands listed as influ­ences, but none of them are bands I have lis­tened to with any reg­u­lar­ity.  Some I haven’t even heard of.

If you’re look­ing for a new group to fol­low, I would def­i­nitely sug­gest the Sil­ver­sun Pick­ups.  I’m not sure what it is about them.  There’s just some­thing about their music that keeps me lis­ten­ing over and over again.  I hope that they don’t wait three years before releas­ing another full length cd.