Passion Pit - Take a Walk
Alright, I’ll be frank with you. Passion Pit is a bit of a guilty pleasure. However, my interest in them has waned over the past few years. After a recent chat with a friend about them, I popped on Manners and found myself more or less enjoying it. Yes, I understand that they’re now under that wonderful stigma of a classification known as “mainstream indie.” There are quite a few folks who have written them off completely by this point. I’m not quite there yet. You can call me soft, you can dismiss my opinions every week from here on out (please don’t!), but what you should do is give this track a listen. This Cambridge, MA based band, under the helm of frontman and principal songwriter Michael Angelakos, has matured a bit. Angelakos is admittedly more comfortable in his own voice this time around. It’s fairly clear on this track, the first single off of their next album, Gossamer, which is available on July 24.
Now, this song strays a little bit from their usual lyrical content. While Angelakos is usually more concerned with a bit of introspection and abstraction (and is perhaps guilty of some platitudinous writing), Take a Walk is actually pretty political. Perhaps that makes it introspective in a different kind of way. Anyway, in those seconds between first reading about a new Passion Pit track and clicking play, I wasn’t expecting to be impressed in the least. Luckily, they’ve proven me wrong. I’ll be playing this one on quite a few summer drives, and, perhaps a bit more appropriately, some summer walks. With this more mature extension of their sound, I have a renewed interest in their next album. Hopefully it will help them shed some of the negativity surrounding their image.
Enjoy!
(via soundboard)
