Passion Pit are a vehicle for Massachusetts auteur Michael Angelakos, who writes all of their songs. He enlisted Ian Hultquist, Ayad Al Adhamy, Jeff Apruzzese and Nate Donmoyer for the band in 2007.
Angelakos explained the band's name to The Sun newspaper December 26, 2008: "It's an old slang term that refers to the area in movie theatres and drive-ins where teenagers would go to make out."
This song was originally included on Passion Pit's debut EP, The Chunk of Change, which they released in September 2008. The set was originally a belated Valentine's Day present, which Angelakos put together for his girlfriend at Boston's Emerson College. He explained to The Sun: "Originally it was a Valentine's gift for my girlfriend that was never supposed to go beyond her ears. She put up with a lot of my s--t and was a saint for it and that is the theme of a lot of the EP." The French Kiss label liked it so much they gave it a general release and watched as this song caught fire on the net.
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