Album title: Tremendous Sea of Love
Artist: Passion Pit
Genre: Synthpop/Glitch Pop/Experimental/Whatever
Nationality: American
Release date: March 24
Position in Discography: Fourth
Fear Factor: Indeterminate
Familiar with this artist? No
Familiar with the genre or subgenre? I don't even know what genre it is
Average RYM Score: 2.91
I have no idea what sort of music this is. There's a lot of stuff about this guy, Michael Angelakos, going on about life and science and giving music away for free, which is all very laudable, but no genre tags, so I don't know what I'm in for. And I still don't. The opener was short and very inconclusive, the next one a kind of running almost xylophone thing with touches of rock and electronic, quite confusing. I see words like “indietronica”, “glitch pop” and “Synthpop” thrown around on various sites in reference to this, but it sort of doesn't sound like any of those, or maybe all of them. There's some spoken word at the latter end of the second track and then it seems to begin as a new piece, but it shown as being the same song? Oh, and then some girl calling her mother on the phone right at the end.
There are r&b ballads, ambient instrumental pieces, straight out poppy tunes, and in the end I suppose it's just all right music but other than the odd kind of mix of styles, there's nothing amazing or wonderful standing out here. I applaud the guy's stance against capitalism, but really, the music neither reflects that nor makes me want to hear any more of his stuff.
Check out more from this artist? No
Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Probably
Expectation Index: N/A