Music Review | Passion Pit Plays For An Eager Prospect Park
The Huffington Post - June 30, 2010 - Zara Golden
"This is the biggest show we've ever played," Michael Agelakos, Passion Pit's leadman, confided to the audience with awe, before asking who had been at the smaller Terminal 5 or even tinier Pianos shows. Passion Pit's Prospect Park show sold out in two days, and scalpers swarmed the entrance to the park. With the crowd anxious to continue dancing, Agelakos was alone in his desire to contemplate and converse on the speed of Passion Pit's ascent from his Boston dorm room to Celebrate Brooklyn.
With only an EP (Chunk of Change), one full length (Manners) and a handful of remixes and covers (notably, and recently, of Katy Perry's "California Gurls" and a cover of Smashing Pumpkins' "Tonight, Tonight"), they easily made it through most of their discography. They opened with a bleepy and almost sleepy-dance hit, "I've Got Your Number," giving the crowd a chance to adjust their ears to the effervescence of Passion Pit's synths and snares and their eyes to the bright, rainbow lights that backed them.
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