Passion Pit

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Passion Pit in December 2008
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Manners
  UK 55 05/30/2009 (1 week)
  US 51 06/06/2009 (23 weeks)
Gossamer
  UK 56 08/04/2012 (1 week)
  US 4th 08/11/2012 (20 weeks)
Kindred
  UK 81 05/02/2015 (1 week)
  US 23 05/09/2015 (2 weeks)
Singles
The reeling
  UK 99 02/06/2010 (1 week)
Take a walk
  US 84 
gold
gold
09/15/2012 (22 weeks)

Passion Pit is an American electropop band from Cambridge , Massachusetts near Boston .

Career

At the beginning of Passion Pit there was a self-produced EP by Michael Angelakos, which should really only be a present for his girlfriend. The songs on it were so well received by his friends that it turned into a serious band project. After a few appearances with accompanying musicians, he was also booked for the opening act of well-known musicians such as Death Cab for Cutie and in 2008 the Frenchkiss label signed the now five-piece band. In the same year they had their first notable success with the EP song Sleepyhead : It reached number 9 on the US Heatseekers charts. It was also used in the 2009 British TV drama Skins .

The Manners debut album was announced for 2009 and the BBC nominated Passion Pit for their Sound of 2009 forecast , which predicted their breakthrough for the coming year. However, the album could not meet expectations and reached positions below number 50 in the USA and Great Britain. The two singles The Reeling and Little Secrets placed around number 40 in the alternative charts.

The second album Gossamer was placed in the top 5 of the Billboard 200 in August 2012 , the single Take a Walk , number 84 in the US Top 100, was awarded a gold record and was ranked third of the 50 best by Rolling Stone Songs chosen in 2012. Subsequent publications could not repeat the success. In early 2018 Passion Pit was on a tour of North America to promote their fourth album Tremendous Sea of ​​Love (2017).

Singer Michael Angelakos has suffered from bipolar disorder since his youth, due to which concerts and performances had to be canceled in the past, and Angelakos was temporarily in inpatient treatment. After separating from his wife Kristina Mucci in 2015, he came out as homosexual.

Band members

  • Michael Angelakos
  • Ian Hultquist
  • Ayad Al Adhamy
  • Jeff Apruzzese
  • Nate Donmoyer

Discography

Albums

  • 2009: Manners
  • 2012: Gossamer
  • 2015: Kindred
  • 2017: Tremendous Sea of ​​Love

EPs

  • 2007: Chunk of Change
  • 2009: iTunes Festival: London 2009
  • 2013: Constant Conversations

Singles

  • 2008: Sleepyhead
  • 2009: The Reeling
  • 2009: To Kingdom Come
  • 2009: Little Secrets
  • 2010: Tonight, Tonight
  • 2012: Take a Walk
  • 2012: I'll Be Alright
  • 2012: Constant Conversations
  • 2013: Carried Away
  • 2013: Cry Like a Ghost
  • 2015: Lifted Up (1985)
  • 2015: Where the Sky Hangs
  • 2015: Until We Can't (Let's Go)
  • 2019: I Found U (with Galantis )

Guest Posts

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  1. ↑ Chart sources: UK US
  2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: US
  3. ↑ BBC Sound of 2009: Passion Pit , December 5, 2008
  4. ↑ www.rollingstone.com, 50 Best Songs of 2012 ; accessed on May 24, 2018.
  5. ↑ www.huffingtonpost.com, Michael Angelakos, Passion Pit Singer, Talks Bipolar Disorder ; accessed on May 24, 2018.
  6. ↑ The Daily Mail, Passion Pit frontman Michael Angelakos, 28, comes out as gay and admits he 'wanted so badly to be straight' for his wife ; accessed on May 24, 2018.

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