Song:Take A Walk
Album:Gossamer
The 2012 single Take A Walk is the best known song by Passion Pit. It appeared on the soundtrack of the 2013 film Carrie. In the studio, Passion Pit is a Michael Angelakos solo project. He hires musicians to tour. He was born May 19, 1987 in New Brunswick, NJ but he lives in Boston. Angelakos was attending Emerson College when he wrote and recorded a couple of songs on his laptop as a Valentine's Day gift for his girlfriend. He performed in local clubs. Berklee student Ian Hultquist approached Angelakos about forming a band. They called it Passion Pit which is Variety slang for drive in theaters. They signed with Frenchkiss for the 2009 EP Chunk of Change. The single Sleepyhead got some airplay on Boston radio. This led to the 2009 album Manners produced by Chris Zane. It did well enough that Columbia picked it up for national distribution. At this point Passion Pit was still a band. But for the 2012 album Gossamer, Angelakos did everything himself in the studio and hired musicians to tour. Zane played drums. Take A Walk was the first single. After the song appeared in a Taco Bell commercial, it was a top ten Alt Rock hit. The song also appeared on the soundtrack for the 2013 remake of the horror movie Carrie. Passion Pit's tour was cut short when Angelakos went into treatment for bipolar disorder. After the 2015 album Kindred didn't do as well, Angelakos started his own company The Wishart Group to use his music to promote mental health. That's how he promoted the 2017 album Tremendous Sea of Love. He also appeared on the 2019 single I Found U by the Swedish group Galantis. Angelakos is probably due for a new album. Here's the video for Take A Walk by Passion Pit.
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