'Flicking fire like saltwater into my eyes'

Gone for electronica toay so a few of you might want to look away. Actually no, don't. You'll learn something new about a band you've never heard of before. Why would you ever want to pass up that oppurtunity? Oh and one more thing; Purevolume is great if you don't mind every other random artist it gives you being a man shouting into a microphone while his friend stands behind him making tambourine noises.

PASSION PIT

These guys really are just a big barrel of fun. With their 'Pop/Electronica/World' labels these guys pretty much fit into every category perfectly. From the very first song of the playlist you just know these guys love what they do and are enjoying themselves a hell of a lot. In fact there isn't a single song on this playlist that doesn't have even a hint of playful fun in the melody, the synths, the drum machines, anything. Really it's nice to listen to music that just doesn't let go of this sense of enjoyment. I mean ok i haven't looked at the lyrics to every song and i do know from experience that songs that sound fun on the first listen can really be all about death or slitting your own wrists, but really, when you've got children singing a chorus as a backing to carefree electronica, a la 'Little Secrets' there's really nothing that can get you down.


Onto the actual musical credibility, i think again the electronica in this music is done perfectly well. You can tell from the very beginning that their music is predominantly electric, but it never feels like that's all it is. You look at bands like The Klaxons who, while pretty good to listen to, go way overboard with their treatment of the electronica genre. And i've always thought that it should never be all that music is. It should simply enhance it. And this is why artists like Patrick Wolf, Bat for Lashes, Goldfrapp, New Young Pony Club etc are among my favourite out there. They have this great talent for music and for the instruments they play, but they also have an even more important talent in knowing just how much electronic elements to inject into a piece of music, without overwhelming the whole thing.

Ok so admittedly i enjoy bands like Crystal Castles who are all electric, but in my opinion it's very hard to get that right. And since i've been wildly off-topic for an entire paragraph now, I'll come back to my original point that it is for reasons stated above that i think these guys are great at what they do. And really you can't for a second deny that whether you enjoy the actual music or not, the general feeling of every song is one of fun, and that really is never a bad thing.


At least for most of us. I hope.