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"&amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re fated to pretend, fated to pretend, we&amp;#039;re fated to pretend\u00E2\u20AC\u00A6&amp;quot; That&amp;#039;s the sound of 2008: George W Bush is in power, RPatz meets KStew for the first time and MGMT are rulers of the synth. But somewhere in among the never-ending stream of electro-pop, Passion Pit are swept away. Given the calibre of both of the Boston five-piece&amp;#039;s albums - their debut Manners and this year&amp;#039;s Gossamer - we should be in a much bigger venue for tonight. Instead, it&amp;#039;s at the Kentish Town Forum where one of indie&amp;#039;s most underrated bands play to a, ahem, cult following.  Not that singer/keyboardist Michael Angelakos appears ruffled, leaping through first song (and Tune of 2012) &amp;#039;Take a Walk&amp;#039; like a sugar-rushed Bash Street Kid; he&amp;#039;s got his shirt tucked out of his pants and everything. It&amp;#039;s almost wrong that he&amp;#039;s making so much merry skipping across the stage when his fellow bandmates are near-motionless behind. They&amp;#039;ve seemingly retaliated, however, by bleeping and blopping over Angelakos&amp;#039;s high squeaking; it&amp;#039;s actually frustrating how muffled his vocals are. &amp;#039;It&amp;#039;s Not My Fault, I&amp;#039;m Happy&amp;#039; at least is a fearsome outburst of walking-on-air electro squishes and chanting from the crowd; Passion Pit&amp;#039;s fighting talk feels holy (in a good way) when it&amp;#039;s wailed back to them by all in here. &amp;#039;Constant Conversations&amp;#039; is also a magical few minutes.  But there are points when the band&amp;#039;s absence from bigger circles is more forgivable; a good few of the album tracks come off weary and the melodrama before us can get trying after 40 minutes in - it&amp;#039;s like Christmas Day when the presents have already been unwrapped. Then comes &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;ll Be Alright&amp;#039; and its manic episodic, synths-eeeking fanciness; it&amp;#039;s proper wondrous. And then comes first ever single &amp;#039;Sleepyhead&amp;#039; which, by means of gold confetti and a rallying audience, is by far the best moment of the night. An encore is simply unnecessary after an ending like that, but they do one anyway (&amp;#039;Moth&amp;#039;s Wings&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;Little Secrets&amp;#039; round us off). When tonight was good, it was good, but the unconverted should try the albums first.  Watch the Passion Pit &amp;#039;Take a Walk&amp;#039; video below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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