— By NPR Music’s Austin Cooper

Gossamer is a perfect title for Passion Pit’s new record. The long-awaited follow-up to its breakthrough album, 2009’s Manners, finds the band spinning shimmering silk from many intricately layered threads: airy synths, warm bass, crisp snares, crashing cymbals, singer Michael Angelakos’ expressive falsetto. Each song positively glows.

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