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| Tremendous Sea of Love | ||||
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| Released | March 24, 2017 July 28, 2017 (Official) | |||
| Length | 35:25 | |||
| Label | Wishart Group Recordings | |||
| Producer | Michael Angelakos | |||
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Tremendous Sea of Love is the fourth studio album by Passion Pit, self-released on March 24, 2017 and later officially on July 28.
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. The songs have since been taken down, but Angelakos announced that he would give a downloadable copy of the album for free to anyone who retweeted neuroscientist Michael F. Wells' tweet on the importance of science and research. [1]
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.
You are tremendous, you are truly the reason I have, have always, and could continue to have anything. And you deserve a thank you. I do not need your money. I just want you, I just NEED you, to listen to me. No money can quantify what that means to me. I really, truly love you.
Thank you.
M Angelakos.
On July 12, an official release date was set for July 28 on all streaming services. [2]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Consequence of Sound | B [3] |
| Newsday | B+ [4] |
| Pitchfork | 7.5/10 [5] |
All tracks are written by Michael Angelakos.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Moonbeam" | 1:17 |
| 2. | "Somewhere Up There" | 6:14 |
| 3. | "Hey K" | 4:03 |
| 4. | "To the Other Side" | 3:11 |
| 5. | "Tremendous Sea of Love" | 4:04 |
| 6. | "I'm Perfect" | 2:16 |
| 7. | "You Have the Right" | 3:06 |
| 8. | "Inner Dialogue" | 2:24 |
| 9. | "Undertow" | 4:23 |
| 10. | "For Sondra (It Means the World to Me)" | 4:34 |
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