Results tagged “chunkofchange”

Ahh, Passion Pit. A band named after a drive-in theater where prepubescents go to make out. The imagery pouring from their music indeed strikes feelings of school-kid age simplicity, fun and love of life. But there's something deeper. Beyond the synthesizers and electronic back beats, sincerity collides with a wistful narrative. They first hit the scene in early 2009 with their Chunk of Change LP, sufficiently snowballing into an "it band." By the time South by Southwest rolled around, the alliterated name was being muttered left and right and up and down.

While the steady hand of democracy steers most end-of-year best of lists towards not only the very good but also the very well known, we here at the Austinist feels it's important to give a little face time to the lesser knowns, especially now that 2009 has closed the door on that last year that happened, whatever it was called. So while we were plenty pleased with our own official list, we thought it important to take note of those albums that shook us this year, even if they didn't make it through the primaries--let's consider them the Dennis Kuciniches and Mike Gravels of the race, if only those guys were any good. As a result, this list is unnumbered, obscure, sometimes strange, and features those underexposed greats that shouldn't be forgotten even though the calendar's turned.