Kevin Bronson on September 30th, 2015

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Silversun Pickups were in especially high spirits Monday night at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Good nature to celebrate their new album “Better Nature,” if you will.

It was the second of the Silver Lake quartet’s four-night run at the Masonic Lodge, and singer-guitarist Brian Aubert was particularly effusive, posing for a photo with a fan as the band approached the stage, smiling and cracking jokes throughout and even saluting one fan he recognized from the quartet’s record-store appearance last week at Fingerprints in Long Beach. Aubert, bassist Nikki Monninger, keyboardist Joe Lester and drummer Christopher Guanlao satiated the crowd, playing eight of the 10 songs on the new album, including the first two, “Cradle (Better Nature)” and “Connection” to start the show and album-ender “The Wild Kind” as the concert-ender.

In between, they played “Well Thought Out Twinkles” and “Lazy Eye” from “Carnavas” (2006); “Panic Switch” and “Catch and Release” from “Swoon” (2009); and “Bloody Mary (Nerve Endings),” “The Pit” and “Dots and Dashes” from “Neck of the Woods” (2012). Included among the new songs was “Circadian Rhythm (Last Dance),” which features Monninger and Aubert trading off vocals. Aubert joked that the song makes Monninger nervous, but with the adoring crowd as her rooting section, she nailed it.

||| Live: Silversun Pickups wind up their four-night stand at the Masonic Lodge tonight.

Photos by David Benjamin