The Best Indie Songs of 2015 - Passion Pit

Passion Pit are super popular. 2012’s Take A Walk has 21 million You Tube plays to date and Carried Away has 11 million. Well Until We Can’t (Let's Go) (Apr’15) is the third single off the new album Kindred (Apr’15) and has only has 350 000 plays so quite a reverse you might imagine. Except while this is another tune that built up slowly on me like dick cheese, this is the best Passion Pit tune by donkeys miles. Even better than February’s release Where The Sky Hangs and that’s saying something. Where The Sky Hangs has a sexy, slinky groove but Until We Can’t (Let's Go) is the peak of a rise, full of jubilant hands in the air excitement. Under The Gun called Until We Can't “a bombastic, synth-heavy dance party” and NPR said it's “a euphoric anthem.”
 

 

Passion Pit is Michael Angelakos, an electric indie-pop musician from Cambridge, Massachusetts who has been putting grooves in vinyl since 2007. He has a four piece touring band. R Kelly and Usher are Mr Angleakos' big influences and he listens to a lot of hip hop and rhythm and blues. His music has been compared to Madeon, Zedd and 1989 era Taylor Swift. Until We Can't (Let's Go) is a song about escaping physical confinement and the positive effect it has on mental well-being. Or, presumably, about how we project negative thoughts on our surroundings. The media like to make a lot out of the fact Michael Angelakos has a bi-polar disorder. Until We Can't is all big synths and drum but it's the singer's phrasing in the bridge that elevates this into the stratosphere. Until We Can't (Let's Go) is as sticky as a gypsy in the tax office and one of the best indie songs of 2015.
 

“Somebody else told me something about
Where you live can cause you suffering”

 

 

Shit you need to know:

Exclaim called Until You Can’t (Let’s Go) “a bombastic tune” and Consequence of Sound were sure it's the best track on the album.

Until We Can't (Let's Go) was compared to Sun City by Indie Shuffle.

Lotus Land called the new long player Kindred, "the quintessence of joy" and Spin said it's “joyfully, euphorically saccharine.”

Not everyone has a hard-on for the band. Rolling Stone thought it's, “so relentlessly up, it starts to feel suffocating,” and Slant Magazine condemned it as “insufferably smug.”

Phoenix is one of Michael Angelakos's favorite bands and the whole band love Michael Jackson.

Passion Pit covered the Smashing Pumpkin’s iconic Tonight, Tonight in 2010.

The band’s name, Passion Pit, refers to drive-in movie theatres.

 

 

The double dip is random as fuck. An indie pop gem from English indie-pop duo Summer Camp. Bad Love (May’15) is the title track from their third long album.
 

“My love was tainted, my love was flawed”