Last night was a good night. It started with Indian food - Lamb Korma, Chicken Tikka Masala, and some big Taj Mahals. It ended with Passion Pit rocking our brains at the Middle East in Boston, playing a succinct but power-packed 40 minute set that left us sweaty and buzzing. Well, at least I was sweaty - that's just how I roll.
Openers Paper Route were hilariously decent - very angsty indie rock about breaking hearts and never stopping loving you. Not the best openers I've ever seen, but as I remarked to someone at the show, they got me psyched up for a better version of their steez - Passion Pit.
Passion Pit, as usual, delivered. It was our 4th time seeing them, and probably their smoothest set - opening with the funky I've Got Your Number, building to a frenzy, and closing with Sleepyhead -> Smile Upon Me. Michael Angelakos came out for a solo encore that was the post-coital cigarette to the lovefest that was the concert, and we left in time to grab the last T home. Does it get better than that? I proffer that it does not.
New LP from the Cambridge boys in May, get excited. They even enlist the help of a New York City Public School Choir on a few tracks, which is about the dopest thing ever.
For your digestion: One of the more overlooked Sleepyhead remixes, a nice change of pace from the bangers. This one was one of the first to pop up, and comes from Brooklyn's Landau Orchestra, home of the producer of Passion Pit's upcoming LP. It's a smoother, slower take on a hyped up jam, but it really delivers well.
Also, for kicks, here's a song from openers, Paper Route, as well as one of the more recent Hood Internet mashes from ABX, featuring Animal Collective and Paper Route Gangstaz (No relation).
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