Like stars burning holes right through the dark
When I reviewed Passion Pit's Manners in July, "Sleepyhead" dominated the tone of the review and it's not hard to see why. A spectacular, dizzying arrangement of falsettos, chipmunk-speed soul samples, and hooky synths, "Sleepyhead" is catchy and giddy fun. Sitting with headphones on doesn't do the song justice. The pounding percussions ask – no, demand jumping and clapping among a crowd of other skinny-jean clad kids. Coming to the cathartic climax, you might even start jumping alone in your apartment. Lead Pit Michael Angelakos has crafted a song that is so wildly infectious (even commercials can't escape its grasp) and sublimely melodic that it's hard for any other track to match it.
Written for Treble Zine's Top 50 Songs of 2009.
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