Passion Pit / Michael Angelakos Band

No thread for him on Chorus yet?!

Anyways, He recently created a soundtrack to a Christmas-themed musical/film "Merry Christmas, Mr. Fields".

It's going to be released on Youtube/Vevo tomorrow (Friday 12/16/16). There's 2 tracks up on Spotify already.

The premiere of the film last night was a couple blocks away from my apartment, so I was lucky enough to walk over and enjoy it with a pretty intimate crowd, as it was blizzarding in Buffalo last night (typical) which probably kept a lot of people home. It was filmed in Buffalo where Michael went to middleschool, and the cast is all kids from the school. It's kind of like "Drunk History" with kids lip-synching along to the music, set at a London bar during WW2. I don't have much to say about the film itself, but the music is beautiful. Check it out Friday!

 

I don't vibe with Christmas music much but I'm curious to check this out. How similar does it sound to Passion Pit?

 

Not much at all, aside from it being his voice, it's very mellow.

 

Very interested in hearing this, the song that's out is pretty solid

 

k so this has blown me away. Sonically, this is wonderful.

 

only been listening to the album, still gotta watch the movie .

 

Michael annotated the lyrics here Michael Angelakos – Merry Christmas, Mr. Fields OST Lyrics | Genius

 

Such a weird little project, but music sounds pretty great. Wish I knew about this, I totally would have went!