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Passion Pit’s Kindred out now + tour dates!

  • April 22, 2015
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In celebration of the release, Passion Pit will tour North America this spring, playing intimate venues in the U.S. and Canada. The band will make stops including Big Guava Music Festival, Brooklyn’s Kings Theatre, two nights at Washington D.C.’s 9:30 Club and many more. Tickets are available now via www.kindredthealbum.com/
The band recently unveiled the video for “Lifted Up (1985),” conceived by Passion Pit fontman Michael Angelakos and directed by Phil Andelman. Watch it here: http://smarturl.it/LiftedUpVid
Kindred was written by Passion Pit creative force and frontman Michael Angelakos and recorded in New York City. The album was produced by Angelakos alongside longtime collaborators and co-producers Chris Zane and Alex Aldi, as well as Benny Blanco.
Angelakos’ songwriting process for Passion Pit has always been to filter and reshape. Many sounds on Kindred that one would assume are synths are actually Angelakos’ voice, manipulated by computers and pedals. Angelakos frequently repurposes sound: using Top 40 signifiers for outré ends, crushing weird natural and synthetic detritus together into pop (Brent Katz, liner notes, 2015).
Kindred follows Passion Pit’s 2012 hit Gossamer, which found the band selling out Madison Square Garden, appearing on “Saturday Night Live” and a special “Live on Letterman” performance, and playing at major festivals including Lollapalooza, Governors Ball, Outside Lands and more.

PASSION PIT LIVE
April 26 Norfolk, VA The Norva
April 28 Boston, MA Converse Rubber Tracks at The Sinclair
April 29 Toronto, ON Danforth Music Hall SOLD OUT
May 1 State College, PA Movin On Festival
May 2 Richmond, VA WRXL Big Field Day
May 5 Washington, D.C. 9:30 Club SOLD OUT
May 6 Washington, D.C. 9:30 Club SOLD OUT
May 8 Tampa, FL Big Guava Music Festival
May 10 Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank Center SOLD OUT
May 11 Brooklyn, NY Kings Theatre SOLD OUT
May 13 Chicago, IL Thalia Hall SOLD OUT
May 14 Chicago, IL Thalia Hall SOLD OUT
May 17 San Diego, CA Observatory North Park SOLD OUT
May 19 Seattle, WA Showbox at the Market SOLD OUT
May 20 Seattle, WA Showbox at the Market SOLD OUT
May 22 Salt Lake City, UT Red Butte Garden Amphitheatre
May 22-24 El Paso, TX Neon Desert Music Festival
May 26 Denver, CO Ogden Theatre
May 27 Boulder, CO Boulder Theatre
May 29 Reno, NV Grand Sierra Resort & Casino
May 30 Napa, CA BottleRock Festival
June 3 Santo Domingo, DR Barbarella
July 16-19 Pemberton, BC Pemberton Music Festival
July 19 Portland, OR Project Pabst
July 24-26 Oro-Medonte, ON WayHome Music Festival
July 25-26 Detroit, MI Mo Pop Festival
August 13 Manila, Philippines World Trade Center
Aug 15-16 Tokyo, JP SummerSonic

KINDRED TRACK LISTING
1. Lifted Up (1985)
2. Whole Life Story
3. Where the Sky Hangs
4. All I Want
5. Five Foot Ten (I)
6. Dancing on the Grave
7. Until We Can’t (Let’s Go)
8. Looks Like Rain
9. My Brother Taught Me How To Swim
10. Ten Feet Tall (II)
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