#1352 Silversun Pickups - Swoon

There's a lot to like here: that ever-Pumpkinsey guitar crush is still overwhelming and beautiful, and the album's full of tonal trapdoors and shifting sonic walls that keep the labyrinth breathing. Brian Aubert's vocals though, shit. Landing somewhere between Corgan's nasal whine and Maida's inflected quabble, it's just too much after a song or two, distractingly distinct, a neon paintball hit on a Mondrian masterpiece. A tragic miss, coulda been something with a different dude at the front 2.5/5