Top Songs of 2009: #5 Passion Pit — Moth’s Wings

Passion Pit blew up this year. Huge. Commercials. Shows on The CW. FNX’s Christmas on Tremont St. concert, arguably upstaging Phoenix and Spoon.

I don’t generally like music that runs this electronic. But this is so damn poppy, and so damn good, and they can play all of this music live … it’s not just someone in a studio. It’s a bunch of synths and instruments. They’re a real band playing real music, that just sounds like it was a dude in a studio with a bunch of computers.

So, that’s how I end up with Passion Pit in my top 10. And “Moth’s Wings”, in particular, as it’s the deepest song, sonically, I think, from the whole album.