Passion Pit
I discovered this band over the weekend and I have to say I’m hooked.
They’re indie dance rock-ish, along the lines of Justice/MGMT, except WAY happier. Throw in some falsettos and a children’s choir, and “Little Secrets” just might be my 2009 summer anthem.
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I downloaded this a few weeks ago but haven’t gotten around to listening to the whole thing. What I heard I liked but I need to give the whole thing a whirl.
FTP!
Remind me when I get home, I have it too.
This band is on SiriusXMU constantly, and I dig them. But, I also lower the volume and/or roll up my windows when passing by people with them on because they do not suit my manly persona.
You know where to find it.
The more I listen to this, the more I realize that this entire album will probably end up defining my summer. These songs completely infest your brain. I can’t stop thinking about “The Reeling”, and I don’t really want to.
They will be playing with Phoenix in Central Park in September.
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2009/06/phoenix_passion.html
I’ve been listening to this whole album all morning and I can’t stop moving my feet under my desk and that rarely happens to me. This thing is like insane levels of catchy.
I’m also just finally getting around to listening to this and I’m loving it. It’s bugging me, though, how compressed it sounds. I thought it was a 128kbps mp3, but it’s high vbr. It just sounds swooshy on purpose?
I’ve heard a couple of the songs now, I feel i should like them a lot but something about the sound of the songs is off-putting. I don’t know if it’s what John is referring to?
There seems to be a lot of high-end tinny sounds without a lot bass…maybe it’s the combination of synth, hi-hat and falsetto? I don’t know but it all seems to grate on my ears after a couple of minutes of “The Reeling” or “Little Secrets”
It could be the vocals because even though I dig the overall aesthetic and sound and the beats, I thought to myself this morning that the vocals are the only thing that make me uneasy. I’m not a huge fan of falsetto but in the right context (like this one) I can live with it. But I think what gets me is that it’s less falsetto as it is that the vocals sound slightly sped up. They remind from of the DANCE song by Justice.
I dunno, this band makes the 350-watt soundsystem in my car bump pretty hard. I never noticed a lack of bass at all.
I saw Passion Pit at Terminal 5 in Manhattan last night. The band was surprisingly awesome (I was very skeptical after seeing videos online about whether or not they could pull off the vocals live), very tight and full sounding.
The crowd on the other hand, holy goddamn. I mean, I probably should have been able to guess that there wouldn’t be a bunch of 28 year old curmudgeons like me running around this place, but I felt like I was at a fucking rave. I was completely surrounded by kids that were too young to drink that were busy making out, smoking weed, and jumping around like idiots. I suppose I could get into that vibe on a rare occasion, but definitely not at 10PM on a Sunday night when all I could think about was how comfortable my bed would feel when I got home. Being old is awesome.
That’s partly why the only shows I go to anymore are loud bands. Partly because they’re the only ones with the energy levels to keep me awake and interested, and partly because after years of being an incredibly scrawny, weak-wristed little goth kid, I’m now a Big Dude™, hobo beard n’ all, and pushing around those little shits is such great fun.
Oh, I almost forgot, one of the opening bands was Tragedy, a Metal Tribute to the Bee Gees. I wanted to kill myself during their set.
Jay, what’s even worse about that is that there is a actual great band called Tragedy, and everytime I see this other Tragedy listed as playing someplace I would go or with another band I like I get psyched, only to realize it is these clowns instead.
They were funny for about half of the first song, but it got old really fast. They also had some dude running around the stage in various outfits (a wrestling singlet, 70s style workout shorts, etc.) that kept bending over to show everyone his ass and exposing his chest so he could play with his nipples and stuff. It was just completely unnecessary and something I couldn’t imagine anyone paying to see. The rest of the crowd seemed to love them, though, and they’re apparently headlining at Bowery soon.