Yall. Heard a new conceptual buzzband. They are called Passion Pit. They seem like a chill band who is always down to either grow a beard or wear glasses. Heard this one song called ‘Sleepy Head.’ I think it is ‘pretty good.’
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Passion Pit Sleepyhead
Saw this live performance of the song. Think they are one of those bands who care about making music that is conceptual, ‘produced at a high level’, and ‘doing a good job of replicating the album experience with the live show.’ These are elements of music that I value in the modern world.
From what I have read in some blogs, they have a new album coming out. Wonder if it will ‘leak.’ Will probably actually just buy it on vinyl or something. I think ‘vinyl’ is the only way that artists get paid these days, from what I have read on the internet music websites on the internet.
I saw this ‘making of’ video where they corral some sort of innercity children’s choir to sing ‘backup’ on their conceptual album. I think there is a funny part where the ‘make sure that the kids hit 6 distinct notes.’ (at the 2:50 mark)
Hope they took the kids out for Happy Meals or something. I wonder how Justice compensated the kids in the popular song ‘D.A.N.C.E.’
I wonder what it would be like to be a child growing up in the city, going to a school with a name that was some sort of combination of letters and numbers (instead of the name of an astronaut/former President/supreme court justice/ regional historical icon). Wish I had some sort of inspired Teach for America bro as my teacher who inspired us to sing pop music hits that were filmed and ‘meant to go viral.’
Hope he makes a movie kind of like ‘Mr. Holland’s Opus’ + ‘youtube.’ I think the lead singer bro of Vampire Weekend was a Teach For America bro. I wonder if he got to opt out of his 2-3 year commitment after he ‘got famous’ and found a better way to pay off his Ivy League Stafford/Perkins loans.
“I used 2 rule the world.” -innercity kids b4 the grow up/Chris Martin
Do yall know who is the next Animal Collective? Really want to ‘look forward’ to an album again to ‘the point that it is unhealthy’ and leads ‘the internet’ to question ‘why’ we even listen to/like music.
Sort of wonder if the ‘conceptual-core’ genre of 2k9-2k10 will just be remembered as this ‘weird time’ where we ‘worried about backlash’ and never even ‘really appreciated the music.’ I just want to keep pretending I am some1 who ‘listens to music’ for ‘all the right reasons’ without considering the context by which I consume new music.
Here are general statements about my perception of how this album will sound without ‘actually hearing it’:
- I think it will be an album that ‘lingers around ur iTunes’ for a long time.
- I feel like this album will be ‘74% more accessible’ than Merriweather Post Pavillion.
- I feel like it will be 47% less authentic-core than Grizzly Bear’s album Veckatimest
- I feel like Passion Pit’s ‘best album’ will be in 2 albums (for no real reason), but they will eventually be considered ‘better’ and ‘more fun’ than Animal Collective as AnCo gets ‘too conceptual’ for people to even ‘pretend to appreciate any more.’
- Panda Bear will make the best album of 2k10, writing a song called “Bros Pt 2: He Seems Like a Chill Bro.”
- Animal Collective will eventually ‘break up’ but then get back together in 10 years, playing their first show at Coachella, then selling out large auditoriums for $50-$80 per ticket.
What are some predictions that yall have about the future of the Conceptual-Core genre?
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wut?
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i feel you
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//////////Reply by Scottish Friction
//////////Posted May 1st, 2009 at 2:36 am
@klk, i feel pain
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I like PP’s first album a lot. More than MWPP. I like like 2 songs on MWPP and its the same two songs everyone else likes (the first 2).
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hay
No.
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not that good
i mean why would i want to hear that song again
howev, mildly interesting the first time, and i “appreciate” what they’re trying to do + wish them well in their efforts to eventually earn my attn
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i think this band played a set on the influential web television series rockville, california on what’s left of the wb.
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l8 on these guys, crls
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wish there were more bands like ‘the Animal Collectors’ i.e. bands i can listen to 2 b kewl but i can ‘enjoy’ their ‘noises’ incidentally while trying 2 b kewl.
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they are so fucking ugly.
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//////////Reply by hahaha
//////////Posted May 1st, 2009 at 1:59 pm
@ho, I can’t stop laughing
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don’t make me slap you with my flip flop
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They exploded.
Real music gets where it is from its steady growth not by its ability to zing through the internet. Ex: TVOR, Vampire Weekend, Bands that play at liberal arts colleges a year before they become last years top band.
I just wish people would pick up on bands 3 or 4 albums deep before they ruin evareeting.
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LOLZ
More like the next MGMT, crls bro. There are way better ‘conceptual’ noise bands vying for the ‘new AnCo’ title that will make u sound waaaaay cooler for listening to [via other people's inability to 'get' their sound]
Passion Pit, on tha other hand, will soon be dating models and playing sold-out shows to 15 yr olds
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//////////Reply by steph golightly
//////////Posted May 1st, 2009 at 11:32 am
@O_o, yeah wishes i was an alt model/festival tween. <3s me sum jew
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they seem totes annoying & are trying too hard
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hate these chumps. plz stay in boston where you belong.
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//////////Reply by *_*
//////////Posted May 1st, 2009 at 2:00 pm
@a., are there Jews in Boston?
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//////////Reply by hmm
//////////Posted May 1st, 2009 at 9:38 pm
@*_*,
me :(
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ps.
album leaked today. oh the ironyz
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looks like a team of 100% jew. is that what conceptual-core is all abt?
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//////////Reply by Eli B
//////////Posted June 2nd, 2009 at 4:09 am
@littlesparrow, jew-core?
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manners kind of sux…
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sursly crls?
when i first heard passion pit (like 6 months ago!!?!) i immediately began waiting for the day when you would sarcastically endorse that earfuck of a band.
but this…this almost seems SINCERE!?!?
i don’t really know what to think right now. this has permanently altered my perception of you. for better or worse, i’m not yet sure.
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//////////Reply by anon
//////////Posted May 1st, 2009 at 1:08 am
@AstroCandy, str8 up
poor carles, hes becoming a tool
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Old news, Crls bro.
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//////////Reply by *_*
//////////Posted May 1st, 2009 at 2:03 pm
@Callie, Sometimes I’m not sure if Crls did it in purpose or he’s just getting old.
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Didn’t like that at all.
‘Making of’ was funny though:
“Handbellz r mental”
“EP was like this” *diddling motion*/*swirling motion*
“PCAAOH!”
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lead singer looks like an altdouche
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Having a chorus means you will appeal to AltBros, eager to sing along at Lollapap4kxswfest.
PashyPit = MGMT for 2K9
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Blogged bout this b4 you carlos. Iwin ulose.
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no offense, but when u talk about music like this, you sound like a really boring person irl.
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so l8
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BLACK KIDS OF 2009
GOOD EP; SHITTY LP
except this time we have no “be ur limousine”
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“Bros pt. 2: He seems like a chill bro” — Hahaha!! I can’t wait for it!
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Those guys are the two biggest asshole dorks. By first glance at their picture they seemed promising. I F’N hate that guys voice and they take themselves WAY too seriously. Ugh… “we are working with bells, all this stuff with bells, it’s mental.” Really? How hard is it to shake some fucking bells? Maybe they should get the kids to shake the bells.This is the shittiest music I have heard in a very long time. I feel bad for those kids for having to be featured on such a shitty ass track. They must have really crappy parents.
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted May 3rd, 2009 at 12:19 pm
@yellowPaiges, I’ve got some bells you can shake. Are bells the new gloc?
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Passion already leaked. You don’t have to make assumptions, you can actually listen to it.
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1] kind a dig passion pit
2] but they really are kind of old news now
3] they kind of just make me miss vamp week bros tho <3 those guys
4] were i bro i would totes be down for growing a beard/wearing glasses
5] crls, why are your readers turning on you soo hxc? you are like losing your control over them. maybe the this is hipsterism at its most fundamental- the inability to love something.
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//////////Reply by hey anony anony
//////////Posted May 1st, 2009 at 12:35 pm
@steph golightly, damn. they kind of just make me miss the vampweeks/bishop allen/harlem shakes/chester french personal brand (via attending an ivy league college)
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//////////Reply by steph golightly
//////////Posted May 1st, 2009 at 12:47 pm
@hey anony anony, yeah kinda just makes me wish wanting to read poetry on a sailboat [orwhateverthefuckvampbrosdo] was still authentic
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//////////Reply by hey anony anony
//////////Posted May 1st, 2009 at 3:09 pm
@steph golightly, kinda wish leadvampbro was still writing his blogspot… think he coulda been ‘the next CRLS’ (via ‘melancholically pondering issues of identity and authenticity’)
http://internetvibes.blogspot.com/2006/02/prep-osterous.html
//////////Reply by steph golightly
//////////Posted May 1st, 2009 at 4:56 pm
@hey anony anony, could not get vwbros out of my mind http://xoxs.blogspot.com/2009/05/talking-to-some-bros-on-hro-about.html
lil embarassed rlly
afterreading this i feel like Crls is no longer the king of alt /memes. His readers have risen higher in the memosphere and he just has to try to impress us now.
i dont understand people still read this blog if we all know so much more than him?!?! hmmm, i sense an explosion in the blogoshpere
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//////////Reply by steph golightly
//////////Posted May 1st, 2009 at 12:51 pm
@anon, i don’t know that carles was ever more ‘plugged in’ then his readers but i think the fatality of hro was marketing itself to hipsters in the first place. being alt is about being a head of the game or at least the perception that you are and the perception that makes you a superior human being. therefor nothing can be permanent in altdom. still think this is a good blog. it’s just not what it perhaps once was.
“nothing gold can stay etc etc”
-pony bro [via the outkasts/top-siders]
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//////////Reply by Oh no Oh my
//////////Posted May 1st, 2009 at 1:49 pm
@anon, </3 u anon
<3 u Carles
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tried to understand, but really didn’t
just like when I listen to AnCo..
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//////////Reply by Larry
//////////Posted May 1st, 2009 at 6:17 pm
@Oh no Oh my, yeah i feel you. or i want to feel you.
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I don’t get Passion Pit. They sound like if DFA79 were choir boys…man they can’t get no POON
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I love Passion Pit! I’m a big fan of their music, and their live show I saw in January was amazing! One of the best shows I’ve ever experienced. Plus, the band was really nice – they stopped packing up after the show to take a picture with me for my blog. I can’t wait to see them at Lolla!
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So yeah.
Like a true altbro I liked Passion Pit when their original EP came out. Got a hold of the leaked LP a few days back…. weaksause.
I liked the ‘concept’ of what they were when they started but the end result was an over-produced, highly ‘approachable’ and pretty pedestrian album.
I think these cats just want everyone to ‘like’ them.
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//////////Reply by animal custar
//////////Posted May 4th, 2009 at 4:00 am
@lame_name,
This is exactly how I feel. I liked their more ’synth pop’ sound on the EP and that song f/ The Dirtbikes especially… really was the best song I’d ever heard… now they sound all dumb and stuff.
I’m afraid it might ‘grow on me’ and I might end up liking Passhy for a different reason that I wanted to :(
I was gonna write this in all caps, but kept making SLEEPYHEAD play.
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where can i get the leak yall? just old and tryin to stay up witth the times…
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passion pit is OK. def. not the new anco. and anco is def. not the new radioheads.
passion pit isn’t culturally relevant like HRO, so they shouldn’t be blogged about. i’m sick of ‘bros who are down to chill and grow beards and get fat’…
‘you can’t auto-tune a war ya’ll.. death has a voice that hits all the wrong notes’
via dead times new song trauma language
that’s my attempt (and fail) at selfless promotion for a band ‘i believe in’ ( dead times) they seem culturally relevant to me or maybe i just think they ‘look cool and mysterious’ and makes me ‘consider if i’m bi or not’
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lol i blogged about passion pit before you did carles
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carles, this is a low. like the blur song. i have been talking shit about this band of faggot jews for at least six months.
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michael angelokas is a cock-sucking flamer with no talent. he sounds like a girl live, his eyes r close together, and he needs to go to rehab.
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this band sucks, y’all. pasty/fugs lead singer
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i saw PPa few months ago when carles hadn’t heard of them. Me win.
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I stopped reading pitchfork so if they’re not from Portland I don’t know them.
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is pashy pit still alt if it’s been in a canadian PSP ad for months?
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Furture of concept core:
Anco’s next album is most succesful of all time, representing a climax of thier career and unifies an army of albros and altbroads. Illegal downloads of teh album top the 22 million mark by years end.
8 months after the release/leak of the album, a Massive backlash takes hold as 22 million diehard ANco fans realize that the bands distinct absence of melody and form renders the music unlistenable. Fans feel shameful and begin retracting their support for the band, claiming they “actually never were fans of ANCo, just panda bear”.
ANco go down as the greatest con of alt-history. The shame inspires a new generation of altbros to create logical and melodious music. Lyrics begin to make sense. Concept core goes the wayside for 7or 8 years.
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pashion pit made a great album/ep. Leave it at that.
They’ll shave and clean up in an album or two.
He’ll date some actor probs and we’ll blog about that.
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too mexi looking
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Hey,
I’m an intern at NPR’s All Songs Considered Program. We’re hosting a live web feed for Passion Pit’s show tonight at the Black Cat in Washington DC. We’ll also be hosting a live chat room from the venue. The feed should start around 10pm EST. You can check it out here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=37
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@Camden
sorry, but QUOI???
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