EPTThe point is, here is an alternative! Band of the Week #1
I present to you Boston's Passion Pit! Perfect for those drunken sing and dance alongs that you have been itchin' to have.
Despite residing on the always trustworthy Frenchkiss, Passion Pit aren't cool. Their approach to danceable rock music is more Friday night than year-end-list. It's also distinctly, for a lack of a better term, American. It's extroverted, brash, and unconcerned with nuance, each synthesizer used for maximum melodic impact instead of texture. -p4k
I knew someone who went to school with them. He IMed me with some songs, asking 'what do you think?'
'Because everyone hear laughs at these.. and then everyone here loves them.'
'I think I love them.'
Me too.
That same friend saw their first ever live show. It was in some small room in Emerson College in Boston. They missed notes, guitar strings broke and my friend was fairly sure that - despite loving them - this band would never make it.
Ha. They're fuckin huge. 2 sold out shows in the Bowery Ballroom in Manhattan.
