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Passion Pit - Chunk of Change EP

Feb 15, 2009, 4:30pm SoundsXP
Boston's Passion Pit have featured in a lot of people's lists for ones to watch out for in 2009, including a ninth place in the BBC's poll. For the first four of the six tracks here, I suffer their 80s synth pop cheesy casio melodies, irritating poo-pooping drum machine percussion and muffled high pitched vocals that seem to have been bolted on separately during a particularly drunken karaoke session, and wonder whether I'm completely out of step with this industry. I nearly give up. The review's written and I've dismissed them out of hand as [...]
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