Blog: Pigeons and Planes

With their upcoming album Gossamer currently available for streaming and poised for release on 7/23, Passion Pit's frontman Michael Angelakos spoke with Pitchfork in an extensive profile about his recent busyness and the mythologized rise of his once pet project: When he was 18, Angelakos was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. "It’s a constant thing—I’m on suicide watch all the time," he says, with straightforward nonchalance, on a June evening in his Brooklyn Heights apartment. "It’s something I have a history with, so people don’t trust me. They try to take [...]