Carnavas


Carnavas is the debut studio album by alternative band Silversun Pickups. It was released on July 25, 2006. The title is an homage to lead guitarist and vocalist Brian Aubert's Greek heritage. 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 #5 in 2007 and "Well Thought Out Twinkles" hit #9 in 2008. Carnavas has sold more than 500,000 copies and was certified gold on May 31, 2018.

In popular culture

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 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, 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 and it was among the MTV2 Subterranean "Viewers Top 20 Music Videos of 2007" list.

Track listing

The two bonus tracks come on a 7 inch in the vinyl format of the album, along with a card to download both the tracks online.

Personnel

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".

Charts

Album
YearCountryChartPeak position
2007United StatesBillboard 20080
2007AustraliaAria Charts80
2007United StatesBillboard Top Heatseekers1
2007United StatesBillboard Top Independent Albums5
2007BelgiumBelgian Albums 84
2008JapanJapanese Charts256

Singles
YearSingleChartPeak position
2006"Little Lover's So Polite"Peru Weekly Charts10
2006"Little Lover's So Polite"Peru Year-End Charts81
2007"Lazy Eye"Peru Weekly Charts2
2007"Lazy Eye"Billboard Modern Rock5
2007"Lazy Eye"Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles2
2007"Lazy Eye"Billboard Pop 10091
2007"Lazy Eye"Billboard Modern Rock Songs 17
2007"Lazy Eye"Peru Weekly Charts2
2007"Lazy Eye"Peru Year-End Charts20
2007"Lazy Eye"Triple J Hottest 10028
2008"Well Thought Out Twinkles"Billboard Modern Rock9