Passion Pit

Passion Pit is an American indie rock band from Cambridge, Massachusetts, formed in 2007. The band consists of Michael Angelakos (lead vocals, keyboards), Ian Hultquist (keyboards, guitar), Xander Singh (synthesizer, samples), Jeff Apruzzese (bass, synth bass), and Nate Donmoyer (drums). All of the band members attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, with the exception of Angelakos, who attended Emerson College.

The first Passion Pit songs, which would later become the Chunk of Change EP, were written by Angelakos at Emerson College as a belated Valentine's Day gift to his then-girlfriend. At first, he wrote and performed all his material alone using a laptop. After one of his solo shows in the Boston area, Ian Hultquist, who was attending Berklee at the time, approached Angelakos and expressed interest in creating and playing music collaboratively.

"Carried Away" is the latest single from their second studio album, Gossamer (2012). The song was written and produced by the band's frontman Michael Angelakos, with Chris Zane providing co-production. It was released as the fourth single from the album in 2013. Frontman Michael Angelakos described the song as "[his] favourite song on the record".

The music video for "Carried Away" was directed by Ben and Alex Brewer, produced by Braxton Pope and Saul Levitz in collaboration with Sophia Bush. The video was released on February 14th (appropriately Valentine's Day) and has reached over 1,000,000 views on the Passion Pit Vevo YouTube account.

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