Fourteen years is a long time to wait for a band to come back. Los Angeles quartet Silversun Pickups helped define a particular strain of guitar music in the mid-2000s, their dense, layered alt-rock threading through Carnavas, Swoon and Neck of the Woods and into the memories of a generation. Songs like "Lazy Eye" and the Gold-certified "Panic Switch" didn't age. They just waited.
The return comes with Tenterhooks, their seventh album, described by Sputnik Music as "undeniably cinematic." A 10-track collection featuring "The Wreckage," "New Wave" and "Long Gone," it finds the GRAMMY-nominated four-piece sounding like a band with something to prove, and who know exactly how to prove it.
Silversun Pickups play The Tivoli for Open Season. Fourteen years overdue, and worth every moment.
Open Season is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland's Strategic Partnerships Fund, and by the Australian Government through the Office for the Arts Revive Live program.