Tremendous Sea of Love
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| Studio album by Passion Pit | ||||
| Released | March 24, 2017 | |||
| Length | 35:36 | |||
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Tremendous Sea of Love is the fourth studio album by Passion Pit, self-released on March 24, 2017.
During February and March 2017, several new Passion Pit songs were uploaded on YouTube on the account The Wishart Group (from the name of a project started by Michael Angelakos and dedicated to supporting musicians by providing them with legal, educational and healthcare services, with a focus on mental health, a topic on which Angelakos has been especially forthcoming), foreshadowing a fourth album for 2017. Because all the videos for those new songs have the same picture as background (a woman wearing a white dress, located in the middle of the sea, turning around as though she had sensed she was being secretly observed from behind), it is suggested that said picture will be the front cover of the fourth album, tentatively titled Tremendous Sea of Love. The songs have since been taken down, but Angelakos announced that he will give a downloadable copy of the album for free to anyone who retweets neuroscientist Michael F. Wells' tweet on the importance of science and research.
Michael Angelakos to his fans on the perception of the album:
To You,
Tremendous Sea of Love
is an album for us, for me, and for you. Something happened when I started making music "professionally.” What happened is I forgot how fun, how beautiful it was to share the version of my music that was not the "product." When I say product, I mean the b version of the song, or album, that was done, finished, ready for a sale. Revisions are important, but we are so good at revising, so concerned with presenting perfect versions of ourselves that we miss the point. We become upset when people don’t fully understand us, or assume things. . . That, my friends, is the business we are in. No, we were in. Because each song was quickly rendered, or written the night before it was uploaded, [and] was mixed to the best of my ability (after years of people telling me I couldn’t mix).
They were not perfect, but they were honest. Honesty is important because clearly we can, as humans, detect falsehoods, and yet today we are discussing “alternative truths.”
This is not crazy, it is just a message saying:
ALL WE HAVE LEFT IS THE FIRST DRAFT
ALL WE HAVE LEFT ARE THE SPELLING ERRORS
ALL WE HAVE LEFT ARE THE ZITS AND IMPERFECTIONS WE E IT OUT
ALL WE HAVE LEFT IS THE CONFESSION THAT WE DO NOT KNOW EVERYTHING
Because today to edit, to revise, is to propagate a culture, A BUSINESS that is archaic, that is scared of acknowledging the truth and that is saying YOU ARE NOT GOOD ENOUGH. I wrote this album to tell myself and to tell you that you were always good enough. That the money we spend agreeing with these people, it is adding insult to injury.
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