New album review: Passion Pit’s “Manners”

Review of Passion Pit’s Manners on Billboard.com (and in the June 27 issue of the magazine)

I know, this came out a month ago and everyone already knows it’s great, but feel free to read about it again! (Wrote this a while ago and it just ran this week, but that’s OK!) Despite the fact that the band’s name sounds like, as my editor put it, “a chain of South Carolina BBQ joints”—which is super appetizing to my vegetarian/pescatarian self—I am so far from being sick of this band. Also, my friend/future NY roomie and I are buying tickets for their just-added second show with Phoenix at Central Park on Sept. 26!