The Naked and Famous

Passive Me, Aggressive You

(Analbumaday Day 58)

Another album that’s nice to listen to for something new, but I won’t be coming back to. The Sun is my favourite from the album.

Between Lorde, Kimbra and Broods, New Zealand has been an unexpectedly rich source of great indie pop acts throughout the 2010’s. It’s something the world should’ve seen coming when The Naked and Famous led the way at the top of the decade with their fantastic debut; Passive Me, Aggressive You. At its heart, PM,AY is a synthpop album inspired by 80’s new wave - that much is obvious from the album opener “All of This”, a track which feels like a midpoint ... read more

An excellent synthpop record. With great production and performances throughout and a great deal of interesting tracks

2010 was the perfect year for this album to come out. The decade was turning. We would enjoy five years of an indie boom before music streaming services began to dominate and influence the culture to an unexpected degree. With the debut album of the Naked and Famous, we got an earnest pastiche of musical influences from the first decade of the Twenty-first Century before we left it behind completely. It is hard to listen to this album and not hear those influences, though a weaker band would ... read more