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Gossamer is the second album from Boston electro-pop band Passion Pit . Gossamer is also an adjective used to describe something so thin or translucent that light shines through it, like a spider web. Shakespeare uses the word to help illustrate how stupid we act when we're in love. (It's also the name of this Looney Tunes character, but that's probably not relevant). It's interesting to consider which aspect of the word Passion Pit considered the most when naming their most recent album, following the enormous success of their 2009 release Manners . [...]