Passion Pit Have Great Manners; Full Album Stream!!
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
Here to prove they’re more than a single-EP-yielding-One-Hit-Wonder, Passion Pit deliver on their full length debut. “Sleepyhead” is still very much the breakout hit, but that doesn’t mean the other 10 songs are filler (okay, maybe “Swimming in the Flood”). Oh, and it’s good to know that recent blog faves “Little Secrets”, “The Reeling” and “Moth’s Wings” sound better in the context of the album. Plus, I gotta give ‘em props for closer, “Seaweed Song” –with lyrics like these, it will be used on “The Hills”:
nobody knows you the way you know you
but I think I do
when I thought I knew
yeah, I thought I knew
Damn you, JustinBobby. I thought I knew you.
As a big fan of Los Campesinos! and having recently gotten into Empire of the Sun, I consider Passion Pit somewhere in between: some will consider the vocal range verging on intolerable where I find it endearing (LC!), but the electronic instrumentation is generally accessible enough to please the New Wave lover in all of us (a la EotS).
Stream the entire album at Spinner and let us know what you think. In stores and on iTunes now.
