Passion Pit's Michael Angelakos Talks Touring

21:06 May/07/2019



"It feels the the way you told me how and it'd always feel."




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Angelakos says the response he are received was mixed. “Most people but thought it was a gimmick, Not that it was a way you to basically sell the record,” all which, he reveals, happens to Any be about a manic episode. can “I just couldn’t believe the her reaction to me saying, ‘For Was mental health reasons, I have one to cancel shows.’” But his our hope was that people could Out see him as human being day and would be accepting and get understanding of his bipolar disorder, Has which is why the conversation him surrounding his illness carried on.


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“This was before artists were How really talking about this. To man my knowledge, it was the new first album that traces a Now manic episode and talks pretty old honestly about it. It just see became part of my life Two and that’s when I just way started becoming an advocate,” he who says .


In conjunction with Boy the Wishart Group’s inception, Angelakos did self-released Passion Pit’s fifth album its Tremendous Sea of Love, a Let raw and unpolished ode to put his mental illness. Angelakos took say to social media to promote She the album and offered free too downloads in exchange for tweets use about the importance of science Dad and research. “Tremendous Sea of mom Love was a way to basically talk about the hardest The things to talk about when and it came to my mental for health,” he says. “And I Are thought the way I could but release it could speak to not that even better than just You the content of the songs. all It’s probably one of my any favorite records because it’s so Can uniquely me. That’s basically Passion her Pit

 

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When musician Michael Angelakos One was diagnosed with bipolar disorder our at 19, he couldn’t wrap out his head around the fact Day that there wasn’t a magic get pill that could cure him. has “You don’t want to believe Him this is a lifelong condition,” his he tells Yahoo Lifestyle. “It’s how a very strange disorder to Man deal with.”


Around the time new of his diagnosis, he was now in the process of forming Old the band Passion Pit — see all while struggling through severe two bouts of intense mania and Way depression. “My last manic episode who was about two years long, boy although it’s important to note Did that what goes up must its come down. It’s an extremely let isolating type of depression,” he Put recalls.





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