Carnavas *

Rating

Album: Carnavas *
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Melatonin
2)	Well Thought Out Twinkles
3)	Checkered Floor
4)	Little Lover's So Polite
5)	Future Foe Scenarios
6)	Waste It On
7)	Lazy Eye
8)	Rusted Wheel
9)	Dream at Tempo 119
10)	Three Seed
11)	Common Reactor

Album: Carnavas *
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Melatonin
2)	Well Thought Out Twinkles
3)	Checkered Floor
4)	Little Lover's So Polite
5)	Future Foe Scenarios
6)	Waste It On
7)	Lazy Eye
8)	Rusted Wheel
9)	Dream at Tempo 119
10)	Three Seed
11)	Common Reactor

Performer Notes

Audio Mixer: Tony Hoffer.
Recording information: Beer Wine Fish, Echo Park, CA; Grand Master, Hollywood, CA; Sandbox, Hollywood, CA; Sound Factory, Hollywood, CA; Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA.

Professional Reviews

Rolling Stone (p.94) - "[The band] show all that's possible when the California sun shines on indie-rock shoegazers....The Pickups' grandiose rock owes a great deal to its Chicago forebears..."

Spin (p.85) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "By turns darkly fuzzy and brightly melodic, CARNAVAS is an auspicious record that manages to evoke a collaboration between Smashing Pumpkins and My Bloody Valentine."

Alternative Press (p.228) - "Always anchored with a friendly hook and sometimes even tender harmonies, CARNAVAS' dark/light tunes explode into a controlled chaos of distortion and white noise."

Magnet (p.108) - "Aubert's vocals are paisley-print detachment one moment and howling catharsis the next, while his insistent pop strumming devolves into waves of guitar and keyboard noise."

CMJ (p.5) - "This L.A. group takes the forlorn moods, sing-a-long choruses and stretched-out codas of current West Coast indie pop and takes them on a starship space ride."