Passive Me Aggressive You

The Naked And Famous | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 15, 2011)
• Original Release Date: 2011
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Republic
• ASIN: B004G8QHKO
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Music
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (58 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,807 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #11 in Music > World Music > Australia & New Zealand

Track Listings

1. All Of This

2. Punching In A Dream

3. Frayed

4. The Source

5. The Sun

6. Eyes

7. Young Blood

8. No Way

9. Spank

10. Jilted Lovers

11. A Wolf In Geek's Clothing

12. The Ends

13. Girls Like You

Editorial Reviews

2011 debut album from the Auckland five-piece. the band delivers exquisite dream pop, oscillating between a calculatedly energetic beat, glitch-y rhythms, and airy synths underneath the gorgeous dual vocals of Alisa Xayalith and Thom Powers. Features the smash singles "Young Blood" and "Punching In A Dream".

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

34 of 35 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Feels like the next flavor of the moment March 20, 2011

By Rodney G. Smith

Format:MP3 Music

This album feels like a mix-tape of really good bands. One song has me comparing them to Passion Pit or Temper Trap, but then the next song has me thinking M83. Then another suggests Stars, and then another suggests Radiohead. In this case, I really like the range. High energy stuff. Fun album.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars The Spite Builds Up and it Can't Get Through, Passive Me Agressive You... May 18, 2011

By Donald J. Shawver

Format:MP3 Music|Amazon Verified Purchase

I've been looking for a new band for a while now and this is by far the best album I've bought in a long while. I would describe them as blend between Snow Patrol, Mates of the State, and Passion Pit. Very good album, songs are catchy, lyrics have depth and meaning but are not extraordinary. Energetic, fun, emotional.

18 of 22 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Good for its strong pieces. September 21, 2010

By iLoveFilms

Format:Audio CD

No, it isn't the perfect album and no every song isn't perfect. However, there a lot of good tracks on this cd like "young blood" and "girls like you", "all of this", "punching in a dream", and "bells." I liked some best coast stuff and enjoyed some of the tracks off of the "young" ep by summer camp. So if you enjoy those you might enjoy this.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars terrific March 25, 2011

By discombob

Format:MP3 Music

Coming from an older, NON-hipster point of view, I still have to say that this album is very good. The songs are really catchy, but it is certainly not entirely trite pop. Their 80s synthpop and Brit-rock influences shine through and have been shifted into something that is their own unique soothing sound. There is a shoe-gazing, yet still engaging Brian Eno-type of vibe on half the tracks. There is also emotion and depth to both the sound and the themes and the production is art-house'esque and mature sounding in a unique way. Two of the songs have a ton of focused energy behind them.

If any of that abstract description strikes your fancy, you will want to definitely get this release. I don't know... it definitely has appeal to me. It's not perfect, but worthy of at least 4 crispy stars.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Indie Rock December 6, 2011

By Stella Carrier

Format:Audio CD

"Passive Me, Aggressive You" by The Naked and Famous contains a clever blend of indie rock and electronic music. The vocals in each of the songs convey intense and organic emotion. My favorite song on this collection is "The Sun." "Passive Me, Aggressive You" is best for anyone that is curious to hear unique songs of the indie rock, alternative rock, and or electronica music genres.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Can't..stop..listening... August 22, 2011

By Glitch

Format:MP3 Music|Amazon Verified Purchase

I rarely buy albums. I had heard about Naked and Famous through the "Related Videos" section on youtube after listening to songs by The Xx. I listened to "Young Blood" and was pretty impressed straight off the bat. I looked them up here on Amazon and saw what a good rating this CD had received, liked the music samples, and especially the $6 price for a full CD. I took the leap and decided to purchase my 2nd album of the year through Amazon. I am so happy I did. I have had this CD playing on repeat on my iPod since. Their music is very unique. As one reviewer put it earlier, one song seems like Radiohead, then the next like Passion Pit and so on. Its very hypnotizing stuff. Awesome CD, more than worthy of the 6 dollar price tag.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Album of 2011: Transcendent and Timeless April 13, 2011

By Ihvahn

Format:MP3 Music

The Naked and Famous has single-handedly changed my entire taste in music. It is the album by which I shall judge all others before I buy them. I first ordered the mp3 only version of this album back in late 2010 and haven't stopped listening to it since. I loved it so much that I bought the $30 deluxe version just to listen to more songs from the EPs (not to mention stare at the band's signatures).

Guided by the powerfully unique vocals of Alisa Xayalith and the endless creativity of Thom Powers, "Passive Me, Aggressive You", in contrast to its title, floors you with waves of sound very much like My Bloody Valentine's "Loveless", while often driving anthem-like choruses into your head until you can't help but sing them out loud. However, it's difficult to pin TNAF in a certain style, ranging from spacey synthesizers in "Punching in a Dream" to raging guitar noise (probably inspired by Billy Corgan solos) in "A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing", and the driving beats of "All of This" to the ballad-like "Jilted Lovers". Just listen to "No Way" and you'll hear all of the aforementioned in one song - simply epic. As if the music itself wasn't emotionally charged enough, the lyrics bring to mind the heartache of lovers in peril and the frustration of the teenage years.

All of my raving raises an interesting question: "Is this album so good that no one, not even the band themselves, can top it?" The answer, in my opinion, is yes - how can you, when there's no comparison?

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars This album had potential, but just stick to the singles... August 9, 2011

By ReverieImage Photography

Format:MP3 Music

I was drawn to the band because of their single hits "Punching In A Dream, Young Blood, and Girls Like You" and I was immediately hooked! They reminded me of Passion Pit, a little bit of The Temper Trap, and The XX I was so excited to finally have found a new band to listen to and so I bought the album. And needless to say I was very disappointed with the rest of the cd, even after a couple of listens. Almost none of the other songs didn't have the good hooks that the singles did, the only songs that stuck out to me that were not singles were "Frayed" and "No Way" and those two songs are the only reason why I gave the album an overall rating of 3/5, but almost every other track on this cd is skipable.

So my advice is as the title of my review says...
just stick to the singles.