Like fellow 2010 newcomers The Naked and Famous, The Pass are a candy-shelled dance group mining the vein of feel good, guitar-tempered electronic music; and like The Naked and Famous, they seem to know what they’re doing. The Kentucky quartet probably don’t have the most original sound, but that’s probably the worst thing that can be said about them. “Trap Of Mirrors” is a scruffy synthpop gem that fuses the punch-in-the-face catchiness of Two Door Cinema Club with the crystalline dance jams Passion Pit. The result is a sticky sweet, quietly danceable, aggravatingly replayable track.
With a cathartic bass line and escapist lyrics that want you to drop everything and come along for the ride, there is natural pop sensibility on display here. The song is so melodically resonant that it’s almost too easy to disregard the lyrics. The shape-shifting drumming keeps you hooked, but even better is the song’s chorus; it acts as a reset button, and lets the initial rush hit you all over again.
[From their debut LP, entitled Burst]
