Artist
Passion Pit
Passion Pit is a synthpop artist from Massachusetts, USA formed in 2007. 24 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Synthpop · Massachusetts, USA · Best synthpop albums
- 24
- Releases
- 2007–2025
- Active years
- 2007
- Formed
Artist
Passion Pit is a synthpop artist from Massachusetts, USA formed in 2007. 24 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Synthpop · Massachusetts, USA · Best synthpop albums
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Gossamer
2012
Chunk of Change
EP · 2007
Take a Walk
Single · 2012
Carried Away (Tiësto remix)
Single · 2013
Tonight, Tonight
Single · 2010
The Reeling
Single · 2009
Sleepyhead 2025
Single · 2025
American Blood
Single · 2023
I Found U
Single · 2019
Lifted Up (1985)
Single · 2015
Where the Sky Hangs
Single · 2015
Until We Can't (Let's Go)
Single · 2015
Constant Conversation EP
EP · 2013
Constant Conversations EP
EP · 2013
I'll Be Alright
Single · 2012
Little Secrets
Single · 2009
To Kingdom Come
Single · 2009
Little Secrets (Jaymo & Andy George remix)
Single · 2009
Passion Pit are an American electropop band from Cambridge, Massachusetts, formed in 2007. The band consists of Michael Angelakos (lead vocals, keyboards), Ian Hultquist (keyboards, guitar), Ayad Al Adhamy (synthesizer, samples), Jeff Apruzzese (bass, synth bass), and Nate Donmoyer (drums). All of the band members, with the exception of Angelakos, attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston. The band culled their name from the Variety Slanguage Dictionary, a glossary of Variety's frequently-used slang, which was provided by the Hollywood Insider publication to help not-so-savvy readers decipher its content. The magazine used the term to refer to drive-in theatres, because of their privacy and romantic allure for teenagers. The band shares its name with a pornographic film made in the 1980s, starring Traci Lords. Members of the band say they have been asked repeatedly if that film is what inspired their name but they weren't even aware of its existence until the year after their formation. The first Passion Pit songs, which would later become the Chunk of Change EP, were written by Angelakos as a belated Valentine's Day gift to his then-girlfriend. At first, he wrote and perfo…
