“Running out of Sounds” may be an ill-advised song title for a band celebrating the 20th anniversary of its first album; this is especially true for musicians who have treated their debut as a sacred blueprint for all the records that have followed. So give Silversun Pickups some credit: They spend their seventh album, Tenterhooks — which contains a song with the aforementioned title — circling through the same sounds they’ve mined for two decades, blissfully oblivious to the irony.
Not that Silversun Pickups act as if they’re middle-aged on Tenterhooks. Unlike so many rock bands with members facing their 50s, they don’t embrace new fashions in a frantic attempt to remain relevant. Nor do they spend the record gazing at the past and mulling their own…