| Carnavas | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Silversun Pickups |
| Cover: | SSPU Carnavas.jpg |
| Recorded: | January – April 2006 |
| Studio: | Beer Wine Fish, Echo Park; Sunset Sound, Hollywood, California |
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| Length: | 55:54 67:50 (vinyl release) |
| Label: | Dangerbird |
| Producer: | Dave Cooley |
| Prev Title: | Pikul |
| Prev Year: | 2005 |
| Next Title: | Live Session |
| Next Year: | 2007 |
Carnavas is the debut studio album by alternative band Silversun Pickups. It was released on July 25, 2006. "Carnavas" is a surname from the Greek side of lead guitarist and vocalist Brian Aubert's family.[1] Some suppliers were also given copies of The Tripwire Session: Live in Chicago, a four-track EP.
The album generated two successful singles on the US Modern Rock chart. "Lazy Eye" hit number 5 in 2007 and "Well Thought Out Twinkles" reached number 9 in 2008. Carnavas has sold more than 500,000 copies and was certified gold in the US on May 31, 2018.[2]
The CD cover for Carnavas is a slightly edited partial image of artist Darren Waterston's 2004 painting entitled Summit. The inlay, also featured on the Silversun Pickups' website and Myspace page, is titled "Becoming Tree".
The song "Rusted Wheel" was used during the end credits roll of the film Puncture. The song "Well Thought Out Twinkles" is featured on the soundtrack of the skateboarding video game Tony Hawk's Proving Ground on top of being downloadable content for the games Rock Band and Rock Band 2 along with "Melatonin".
Similarly, "Lazy Eye" is a playable song in both Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero World Tour. The song is also featured on the Forza Horizon soundtrack, on the "Horizon Rocks" station [3] and also featured in television advertising for New World supermarkets in New Zealand. The band has performed "Lazy Eye" on the Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Later With Jools Holland, and Last Call with Carson Daly.
The music video for "Lazy Eye" received airplay on MTV, MTV2, MTVU, VH1, Fuse, MuchMusic, MTV (Latin America), International Music Feed and many other international broadcast outlets. The popularity of the "Lazy Eye" music video led to the creation of a VH1 "Pop-Up Video" version[4] and it was among the MTV2 Subterranean "Viewers Top 20 Music Videos of 2007" list.[5]
The 2 bonus tracks come on a 7" in some vinyl editions of the album, along with a card to download both the tracks online.
| Peak position | |
| Australian Albums (ARIA)[6] | 65 |
|---|---|
| 2007 | "Lazy Eye" | US Billboard Modern Rock[7] | 5 | |
| US Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles[8] | 2 | |||
| US Billboard Pop 100 | 91 | |||
| US Billboard Modern Rock Songs (Year-End Charts) | 17 | |||
| 2008 | "Well Thought Out Twinkles" | US Billboard Modern Rock | 9 |
| Concert Tour Name: | Carnavas Tour |
| Album: | Carnavas |
| Artist: | Silversun Pickups |
| Type: | Concert |
| Start Date: | July 6, 2006 |
| End Date: | September 28, 2008 |
| Number Of Legs: | [N/A] |
| Number Of Shows: | 226 shows |
The Carnavas Tour, the first ever major Silversun Pickups tour, kicked off on July 6, 2006.[9]
Only around 50 shows have known setlists out of the 226 shows as of October 1, 2022.
[11] list does not include cover songs