Passion Pit 'Manners' Leak Tests Moral Fiber of Bloggers Everywhere
By Jeff Luppino-Esposito

Something amazing happened last night.
Sure, the highly anticipated Passion Pit album 'Manners' has leaked and people are drooling like a pack of fourth grade girls at a milky pen party.
But that's not, exactly, the amazing happening I'm referring to.

I'm instead hinting at a little something that experts are calling the 'Dawn of Moral Bloggerism'.
In wake of the Passion Pit leak, music bloggers everywhere are suddenly displaying a newfound air of nobility (though many consider it more of a nostalgic hearkening to a forgotten chivalric blogging past of the dialup days of yore)

What, pray tell, marked this blogging benevolence?
Well take a look around any of your favorite music blogs and you'll see one constant across the wide expanse internets: No one is posting the leak.

That's right, the very same people who hyperlink, zshare, and imeem the crap out of every song that they have manually ripped off of an early release vinyl are now standing in defense of Passion Pit.

Out of supposed respect for the band, bloggers are listening to the album, confirming its greatness (or occasionally making a few smarmy statements in comparing it to Merriweather Post Pavilion) and then, here's the biggest shocker of all, INSISTING THAT YOU GO PRE-ORDER THE ALBUM online.

Surely you jest!
No. No I don't.

Somehow a leak has increased the potential for profitability of an album, regardless of the possibility that this may well be a self-induced leak. No one of official authority has commented regarding the legitimacy of such a claim, though we suspect that this most likely is a result of any and all people of importance experiencing the very same shock in response to this wave of righteous reporting.

Of course, since blogging is usually a competitive art of out-leaking your equally mediocre neighbor, this recent collective change of heart leaves us behind-the-curve bloggers with an extremely difficult question-- how do we assert our authority in such a situation?

Well, we, inevitably, have an answer.

To you, gentleman and ladies of the blogosphere at large, I write today to inform that we at PopSense will be toppling any and all competition in one extremely well-thought-out swoop of masturbatory music blogging mastery.

Other blogs have posted 2 or 3 songs from the leak. We say, 'hey, dammit, we can do that.' So, we shall. Other blogs have included a brief statement or two regarding the success of the leak. Passion Pit's leaked album, Manners, is looking to be a top contender for best album of the year. As proven by the previous, completely out of context statement, we're willing to do the same. Last but not least, other blogs have insisted that they will not give away the whole album despite the fact that they have listened to it themselves and have made similar aforementioned statements of review. THIS is where we go for the jugular.

We at PopSense will not only encourage you to pre-order the album (hah! see) but we WILL NOT EVEN LISTEN TO THE LEAK OURSELVES.

Oh yeah, that's right, it happened.
Good guys 1, rest of the world 0.
You're welcome Passion Pit.

(Note, these singles totally hit the web pre-leak. Yes, what you've heard is true, we are the music blogging Jesus to Passion Pit's Leper/Samaritan.)

Passion Pit - Moth's Wings.mp3

Passion Pit - Little Secrets.mp3

Passion Pit - The Reeling.mp3


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