"Passerby is the brainchild of art-world composer Michael Vecchio. Throw on this debut album and you'll hear sophisticated pop songs that owe as much to Britpop (think Pulp and early Supergrass) as they do to The Shins. Vecchio successfully combines a wide range of elements to make a coherent and distinctive record in the same way that Beck's 'Midnite Vultures' or Blur's 'Modern Life Is Rubbish' did...." -excerpt from review of PASSERBY in THE BIG TAKEOVER