Passion Pit's break-out hit "Sleepyhead" combines hip-hop beats with spastic helium vocal loops and vaguely Indian-sounding instrumentation. Come to think of it, the Brooklyn band kinda sounds like Disney's Main Street Electrical Parade. You remember that thing? Probably not. So, picture a procession of oversized animals wrapped in Christmas lights at twilight, marching slo-mo down the avenue toward Cinderella Castle. In a video I saw recently on TheFader.com, Passion Pit's lead-singer Michael Angelakos says that "Sleepyhead" was meant to emulate a children's choir. Fitting, eh?
The "Sleepyhead" video is just as psychedelic as the song's exotic sound. It features Angelakos' head in an animated box that spins up and down the length of a cable, bobbing alongside electrified piano keys and iridescent letters. It's basically Tron. Check it out.