The Pains of Being Pure At Heart :: “Everything With You”
Posted by: PJ in The Yellow Stereo
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart are a three-piece band from New York whose name just screams indie pop, so much so that it could possibly make you a bit sick to your stomach (in a good way, though). I first heard this band when they released their single, This Love is Fucking Right, on Cloudberry last year and have been pretty much hooked every since. During that time, I was in the midst of discovering an overwhelming amount of indie pop bands, and just learning about the rich history of the C86 genre. It’s partly the reason for the almost drastic turn of this blog into being more indie pop-centric, and I doubt that will change again for a very long time.
Back to the band at hand, who’ve released an MP3 of “Everything With You,” the first single which will be out on 7″ in the fall, along with being on their highly anticipated deput LP in early 2009 on Slumberland Records (and on Fortuna Pop in the UK). The single just screams for continuous replay, as the catchy boy/girl harmonies of Kip Berman and Peggy Wang-East wonderfully gel with the jangly, distorted guitars that echoes early My Bloody Valentine and Black Tambourine. There’s also this guitar solo near the end of the song that completely rocked my face off, considering i’ve never heard anything of the ilk since possibly the 90s (no joke, no one does solos like this anymore).
You can listen to a few more new songs on the band’s myspace, which makes me wish that they were returning back to Popfest next week in Athens.
MP3: The Pains of Being Pure At Heart :: “Everything With You”
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Very nice… reminds me of something off of Rocketship’s “A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness”. Makes perfect sense that they’re on Slumberland.
TPOBPAH are great… but there are four of them.