Title: Manners
Artist: Passion Pit
Genre: Electro-Pop
Release Date: 3rd July 2009
Label: Sony BMG
Album Review
Being the closing act at the Melt! Festival 2009 (Coca-Cola Soundwave Tent pres. Melt! Klub) and welcomed by the audience, PASSION PIT recently published their first full length album ‘Manners’. The band formed in late 2007. Originally, Michael Angelakos had started PASSION PIT as a project in order to write a few songs for his girlfriend as a Valentine's Day present. In 2008, after playing only a handful of shows, they were voted “Best New Act” in the “Boston Phoenix’ Best Music Poll”.
As with its predecessor, the ‘Chunk of Change’ EP released in 2008, ‘Manners’ is a really awesome masterpiece of music that is one-of-a-kind. It’s a pop record that creates a own world and is unprecedented in the sector of Electro Pop. Rolling Stone magazine praised lead singer Michael Angelakos' ability to build on the success of the ‘Chunk of Change’ EP, noting that "what makes the record are his loose beats, shamelessly fruity melodies and breathless little-boy vocals, all pushing skyward". Well, there’s nothing more to say…
Even John Mayer expressed his enjoyment of the song ‘Moth's Wings’ on his website blog, saying the song is "one of the best songs I've heard in a long time. It sounds like the hope I have for the summer ahead". ‘Manners’ is going to seize the world with a carefully-sculpted songwriting, loose beats and fresh melodies, combined with sometimes weird but genius falsetto voices - all in all a bunch of great songs defining new standards for new genre…
Tracklist
01. Make Light
02. Little Secrets
03. Moths Wings
04. The Reeling
05. Eyes as Candles
06. Swimming in the Flood
07. Folds in Your Hands
08. To Kingdom Come
09. Sleepyhead
10. Let Your Love Grow Tall
11. Seaweed Song
Line Up
Michael Angelakos - vocals, keyboard
Ian Hultquist - keyboard
Ayad Al Adhamy - synthesizer, samples
Jeff Apruzzese - bass
Nate Donmoyer - drums
Website
http://www.passionpitmusic.com/ / http://www.myspace.com/passionpitjams
Cover Picture
Rating
Music: 9
Sound: 9
Extras: -
Total: 9 / 10
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