Blog: The Line Of Best Fit

Passion Pit are the handsome generics behind feelgood-hit-of-2009 ‘Little Secrets’ – you know, that one with the sleazy synth and the cowbells that throws up a sick drum break out of nowhere like David Caruso putting his shades on. But Passion Pit are also containers of multitudes, hidden treasures and bear-traps of sound. Not least intriguing is frontman Michael Angelakos, who, like a Greek-mythic antihero, seems cursed to express all his worldly misery in upbeat, obnoxiously danceable electronic pop. (Recommended reading: a great, albeit grumpy, interview on this subject in The Guardian .) And [...]