Cargo Classics
-
Sold outVisit product page →Sleaford Mods started out sometime during 2006 whilst Jason Williamson was living in Nottingham. Born out of part frustration and part accident, it quickly found its feet as an aggressive verbal onslaught on all that is contrived and connected to the day-to-day hammer of low paid employment and domestic situations arising from that trap.
After a year of working ideas out in both the studio and in live performance around Nottingham, Williamson moved south and took the cause to London for a couple of years, before returning to Nottingham in 2009.
Soon after that he that he met Andrew Fearn and the Sleaford Mods became a duo. Fearn's first work was on the production of Wank ' the Mods' fifth CDr album. Soon after he started stalking the studio and stage with Williamson. Just after the release of Wank the duo were invited to play a three day festival curated by Nottingham's Rammel Club. During that weekend they were introduced to the Harbinger Sound label.
A meeting which ' a year later ' resulted in the release of Austerity Dogs.
Tracklisting:
1. Urine Mate
2. Mcflurry
3. My Jampandy
4. Fizzy
5. Donkey
6. Ppo Kissing Behinds
7. Shitstreet Runny
8. Wage Don't Fit
9. Showboat
10. Don't Wanna Disco Or 2
11. Five Pound Sixty
12. Kill It Clean
13. Bored To Be Wild (CD only bonus track) -
Sold outVisit product page →'Divide And Exit' sees Sleaford Mods once again released on the elusive Nottingham-based low-profile Harbinger Sound label. Once dismissed around their native Nottingham as "two skip rats with a laptop" the last 12 months has seen the Sleaford Mods simply knock all their distractors clear out of the way.
The mounting hysteria surrounding their 2013 album " Austerity Dogs" has spread like chlamydia at a teenage house party and saw them topping many 'End of Year' lists worldwide. Along with a handful of limited 7" releases on labels as diverse as Matador and X-Mist, plus an extensive european touring programme have all helped to solidify their growing reputation as the 'ones to watch '. The Sleaford Mods duo of Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn have also been busy throughout the year working on the follow up album which finally sees a release at the start of May.
"Divide and Exit " contains 14 new tracks all written over the last 12 months and the result is as immediately in your face as its vicious predecessor. Whilst Fearn's beats and loops will pull you up into the urgency of Sleaford Mods they also allow you to run the gauntlet from delibrate clumsy dance-floor swaggers to full-on punk throwabouts with them. Williamson is let free to spit out his unempathic litany of bile and anger towards the bloated and tedious. His verbal salvos and side-swipes are often savage and brutal , yet at turns, hilarious, but always spot on as Sleaford Mods rage and despair as the country sinks deeper into a cesspool of its own idiocy.
It's an album that doesn't have the privilege of luxury, indulgence or extravaganza and it will strike a resonant chord with many because it simply refuses to compromise. Many critics have attempted to tag and align the Sleaford Mods with other artists and have done little other than to advertise their own shortcomings and lack of knowledge.
If you need a pointer try and imagine an East Midlands take on Suicide that survived rave culture and looked to the Wu-Tang Clan for the escape hatch. The down to earth observations and story-telling of Ian Dury or Patrik Fitzgerald are maybe closer than any other names flung about in desperation.
If you wish to tag and place Sleaford Mods you're only limiting yourself.
Tracklisting:
1. Air Conditioning2. Tied Up in Nottz3. A Little Ditty4. You're Brave5. Strike Force6. The Corgi7. From Rags to Richards8. Liveable Shit9. Under the Plastic and N.C.T.10. Tiswas11. Keep Out of It12. Smithy13. Middle Men14. Tweet Tweet Tweet -
Sold outVisit product page →Nottingham duo the Sleaford Mods are due to release their third proper'album on July 24th via abstract-punk label Harbinger Sound on vinyl, CD and download.
The album will be housed in a gatefold sleeve designed by Steve Lippert and was mastered by Matt Colton at Alchemy. Everything else was done by Sleaford Mods.
'Key Markets' was a large supermarket bang in the centre of Grantham from the early 1970's up until around 1980,' explains Jason Williamson. 'My mum would take me there and I'd always have a large coke in a plastic orange cup surrounded by varnished wood trimmings and big lamp shades with flowers on them. Beige bricks with bright yellow points of sale and large black foam letters surrounded you and this is why we called the album 'Key Markets'. It's the continuation of the day to day and how we see it, the un-incredible landscape.'
'The album was recorded in various periods between summer 2014 through to October of that year. We worked fast as we normally do, the method was the same as the other albums and like the other two, the sound has naturally moved itself along. 'Key Markets' is in places quite abstract but it still deals heavily with the disorientation of modern existence. It still touches on character assassination, the delusion of grandeur and the pointlessness of government politics. It's a classic. Fuck em.'
Sleaford Mods are: Jason Williamson - words Andrew Fearn - music
Tracklisting:
1. Live Tonight
2. No One's Bothered
3. Bronx in a Six
4. Silly Me
5. Cunt Make It Up
6. Face To Faces
7. Arabia
8. In Quiet Streets
9. Tarantula Deadly Cargo
10. Rupert Trousers
11. Giddy on the Ciggies
12. The Blob -
Visit product page →Aufheben or Aufhebung is a German word with several seemingly contradictory meanings, including "to lift up", "to abolish", or "to sublate".The term has also been defined as "abolish," "preserve," and "transcend." In philosophy, aufheben is used by Hegel to explain what happens when a thesis and antithesis interact.
A brand new album by the Brian Jonestown Massacre, recorded in Berlin in Anton Newcombe's studio & the infamous East German Radio Station Studio East Featuring Matt Hollywood an original member of the band. It also features Will Carruthers (Spacemen 3, Spritualized) , Constatine Karlis (Dimmer), & Thibault Pesenti (Rockcandys) .
Plus vocal performances by Eliza Karmasalo (in Finnish) This album brings the traditional Brian Jonestown Massacre sound mixed with eastern influences & bringing it up to date with the benefit of all the additional weirdness that's been discovered in the past 40 years.
Tracklisting:
1. Panic in Babylon
2. Viholliseni Maalla
3. Gaz Hilarant
4. Illuminomi
5. I Want To Hold Your Other Hand
6. Face Down On The Moon
7. The Clouds Are Lies
8. Stairway To The Best Party Of The UniverseÂ
9. Seven Kinds Of Wonderful
10. Waking Up To Hand Grenades
11. Blue Order / New Monday -
Visit product page →Bravery, Repetition and Noise is a dark dreamy album, rich in atmosphere, layered in waves of sound.
The album's antecedents are clear, inspired by psychedelia as they were by punk's nihilism, pulling both strands into a doom-laden, experimental sound quite distinct from anything that had come before or since.
The Brian Jonestown Massacre uses this as their touchstone, lovingly re-creating the moods and atmospheres of the past.
Tracklisting:
1. Just For Today
2. Telegram
3. Stolen
4. Open Heart Surgery
5. Nevertheless
6. Sailor
7. You Have Been Disconnected
8. Leave Nothing For Sancho
9. Let Me Stand Next To Your Flower
10. If I Love You?
11. (I Love You) Always
12. If I Love You? (New European Gold Standard Secret Babylonian Brotherhood Cinema Mix) -
Visit product page →This six-song, half-hour CD/VINYL the band's affecting a more rural, lonesome-sounding tone and a moodier, more deliberate pace; the more traditional feel meshes well with Anton Newcombe's twisting of country-gospel lyrical clichés into rock & roll attitude. Â
The Brian Jonestown Massacre is a psychedelic rock band originally from San Francisco, California, led by guitarist/singer Anton Newcombe. Since 1995 The Brian Jonestown Massacre has released numerous albums, first for Bomp! Records, the label which gave them their start, and later for TVT and Tee Pee. BJM has been essential in the development of the modern U.S. garage scene, and many LA and SF musicians got their start playing with Newcombe, including Peter Hayes of The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.
Originally Newcombe was heavily influenced by The Rolling Stones' psychedelic phase - the name comes from Stones guitarist Brian Jones combined with a reference to cult leader Jim Jones, but his work in the 2000s has expanded into aesthetic dimensions approximating the UK Shoegazing genre of the 1990s and incorporating influences from world music, especially Middle Eastern and Brazilian music.
With The Dandy Warhols, The Brian Jonestown Massacre is one of the subjects of the documentary DIG!, winner of the 2004 Grand Jury Prize Documentary at Sundance. DIG! is also a part of the Permanent Collection of the NY Museum of Modern Art. Since the release of DIG!, the band has achieved increasing critical acclaim and recognition, and has performed at Cochella and Lollapalooza in 2005 with special mentions from the NY Times and Washington Post.
Tracklisting:
1. The Way It Was
2. Mansion in the Sky
3. Reign On
4. The Godspell According to A A Newcombe
5. All Things Great and Small
6. Arkansas Revisited -
Don't Get Lost was fully recorded & produced at Anton's new Cobra Studio in Berlin. It is the 16th full length release from the Brian Jonestown Massacre recorded from March 2016 to October 2016.Visit product page →
With band members Ricky Maymi, Dan Allaire, Collin Hegna & Ryan Van Kriedt. Also Emil Nikolaisen from the Norwegian band Serena-Maneesh & Pete Fraser (The Pogues, New Young Pony Club) on saxophone joins the band on this album, plus vocal performances from Tim Burgess (Charlatans), Tess Parks and Shaun Rivers.
A new dynamic is heard on this album mixing the shoegaze/psychedelic sound with more experimental twists on some tracks you might hear PIL (Metalbox), Primal Scream, or even Ornette Coleman.
14 tracks that will twist and turn through the known and the unknown Brian Jonestown Massacre.
Anton Newcombe has been a very busy man these past 2 years, kicking off with the critically acclaimed Brian Jonestown Massacre album 'Revelation' in May 2014. After a successful UK and European tour, the BJM followed this up with the '+-' EP (Nov 2014). 2015 saw the release of 'Musique de film imaginé' (April); an imaginary film soundtrack album featuring the track 'Bonbon' which has, ironically, been used in 'Dheepan'; the Palme D'or winner at Cannes film festival 2015.
In June, Anton and Tess Parks embarked on a well received tour of the UK and Europe to support the release of 'I Declare Nothing'. Anton finished the 2015 with a BJM mini-album release entitled 'Mini-Album Thingy Wingy' . In 2016 The band released 2 singles and the critically acclaimed Third World Pyramid . The band have been touring the world since November 2015, playing Australia , New Zealand , and then in 2016 USA , Canada , Europe , Chile & Argentina.
Vinyl 2xLP Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. Open Minds Now Close
2. Melodys Actual Echo Chamber
3. Resist Much Obey Little
4. Charmed I'm Sure
Side B:
5. Groove Is In The Heart
6. One Slow Breath
7. Throbbing Gristle
Side C:
8. Fact 67
9. Dropping Bombs On The Sun
10. UFO Paycheck
Side D:
11. Geldenes Herz Menz
12. Acid 2 Me Is No Worse Than War
13. Nothing New To Trash Like You
14. Ich Bin Klang
CD Tracklisting:
1. Open Minds Now Close
2. Melodys Actual Echo Chamber
3. Resist Much Obey Little
4. Charmed I'm Sure
5. Groove Is In The Heart
6. One Slow Breath
7. Throbbing Gristle
8. Fact 67
9. Dropping Bombs On The Sun
10. UFO Paycheck
11. Geldenes Herz Menz
12. Acid 2 Me Is No Worse Than War
13. Nothing New To Trash Like You
14. Ich Bin Klang -
Visit product page →Considered a classic and most sought after re-issues on the vinyl format, the CD was originally released in 1997.
Give It Back! is the sixth studio album and notably, is the only album that features Peter Hayes, who went on to found the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.
The Brian Jonestown Massacre is a psychedelic rock band originally from San Francisco, California, led by guitarist/singer Anton Newcombe. Originally Newcombe was heavily influenced by The Rolling Stones' psychedelic phase - the name comes from Stones guitarist Brian Jones combined with a reference to cult leader Jim Jones, but his work in the 2000s has expanded into aesthetic dimensions approximating the UK Shoegazing genre of the 1990s and incorporating influences from world music, especially Middle Eastern and Brazilian music.
Tracklisting:
1. Super-Sonic
2. This Is Why You Love Me
3. Satellite
4. Malela
5. Salaam
6. Whoever You Are
7. Sue
8. (You Better Love Me) Before I Am Gone
9. Not If You Were the Last Dandy on Earth
10. #1 Hit Jam
11. Servo
12. Devil May Care (Mom & Dad Don't)
13. Their Satanic Second Request -
Visit product page →Redolent with the spirit of such high priests of effects and delay as Loop, Spaceman 3, and My Bloody Valentine, not to mention a fair dollop of the Jesus and Mary Chain.
Methodrone clearly is the sum of its influences.
Thankfully The Brian Jonestown Massacre does a very solid job with them throughout the album's course of over 70 minutes.
Tracklisting:
1. Evergreen
2. Wisdom
3. Crushed
4. That Girl Suicide
5. Wasted
6. Everyone Says
7. Short Wave
8. She Made Me
9. Hyperventilation
10. Records
11. I Love You
12. End of the Day
13. Outback
14. She's Gone
15. Methodrone -
Visit product page →<p>After spending time writing and recording in Liverpool, England and Reykjavik, Iceland; My Bloody Underground will be the thirteenth fulllength album released by the band, set for release on <strong>Anton Newcombe</strong>'s own record label a recordings thirteenth time's a charm for a band who's name a portmanteau of the original and founding member of The Rolling Stones' Brian Jones and the infamous mass cult suicide at Jonestown, Guyana in 1978. <br><br>Fans and critics of Brian Jonestown Massacre who have eagerly awaited a new album for a little over 4 years now will not be disappointed with its musical content, quality and controversy to follow. The opening track titled Bring Me The Head Of Paul MCCartney On Heather Mill's Wooden Peg (Dropping Bombs On The White House) begins and soars into an echoing wave of tambourines and trancelike acoustics, that continues for 12 more tracks and 75.87 minutes, stirring visions of sunny Californian communes to New York City bars on the Lower East Side. From Rishikesh to Reykjavik, the entire album provides provocative glimpses into Anton Newcombe's head, both the darkness and the light, so clearly and so beautifully selfproduced. A man and artist many are eager to dismiss as obnoxious and unworthy of the attention he receives. Others however, deem him simply as vulnerable in this world he roams and hugely misunderstood whilst doing so. Like many prolific and artistic madmen before his and our time, dare we sum all of the above and categorize Newcombe as a one of the musical geniuses of our time? Maybe it's too early or controversial to say, but tracks from My Bloody Underground are certainly good indications whether such a characteristic is worthy of his nature. We Are The Niggers Of The World (track 4) is a song Anton wrote when he was just 9 years old, you can decide for yourself.
Tracklisting:
1. Bring Me The Head Of Paul McCartney On Heather Mill's Wooden Peg (Dropping Bombs On The White House)
2. Infinite Wisdom Tooth / My Last Night In Bed With You
3. Who Fucking Pissed In My Well?
4. We Are The Niggers Of The World
5. Who Cares Why
6. Yeah Yeah
7. Golden Frost
8. Just Like Kicking Jesus
9. Ljosmyndir
10. Automatic Faggot For The People
11. Darkwave Driver / Big Drill Car
12. Monkey Powder
13. Black Hole Symphony -
Visit product page →Available on 180grm translucent & opaque coloured vinyl 2LP and CD.
Revelation is the first album that was fully recorded & produced at Anton's recording studio in Berlin . It is the 14th full length release from the Brian Jonestown Massacre recorded from late 2012 to early 2014, with Anton Newcombe refining the 13 tracks that appear on the album.
Featuring appearances from: Ricky Maymi (an original member of the band), Joachim Alhund (Les Big Byrd), Constatine Karlis (Dimmer), Ryan Van Kriedt (Asteroid #4) as well as a vocal performance in Swedish by Joachim Alhund (Les Big Byrds) on the opening track.This album brings the traditional Brian Jonestown Massacre sound mixed with eastern influences & bringing it up to date with the benefit of all the additional weirdness that's been discovered in the past 40 years.
Two dozen band members later and numerous ups and downs (some have been famously sensationalized in the media ), the one thing that has always remained consistent for this psychedelic collective, is front man Mr. Anton Alfred Newcombe.Tracklisting:
1. Vad Hände Med Dem? Â
2. What You Isn'tÂ
3. Unknown
4. Memory Camp
5. days, weeks and moths
6. Duck and Cover
7. Food For CloudsÂ
8. Second Sighting
9. Memorymix
10. Fist Full Of BeesÂ
11. Nightbird
12. Xibalba  Â
13. Goodbye (Butterfly) -
Visit product page →Taken from the original vinyl release with the original tracks & re-cut at Abbey Road.
The Brian Jonestown Massacre is a psychedelic rock band originally from San Francisco, California, led by guitarist/singer Anton Newcombe.
Since 1995 The Brian Jonestown Massacre has released numerous albums, first for Bomp! Records, the label which gave them their start, and later for TVT and Tee Pee.
BJM has been essential in the development of the modern U.S. garage scene, and many LA and SF musicians got their start playing with Newcombe, including Peter Hayes of The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.
Tracklisting:
1. Crushed
2. That Girl Suicide
3. Deep In The Devil's Eye & You
4. Kid's Garden
5. When I Was Yesterday
6. Spacegirl
7. Spacegirl - (Revisited)
CD only bonus tracks:
8. After The Fall
9. Thoughts Of You
10. Hide And Seek
11. Never, Ever!
12. Ashtray
13. Fire Song -
Visit product page →This LP brings the traditional Brian Jonestown Massacre sound mixed with eastern influences & bringing it up to date with the benefit of all the additional weirdness that's been discovered in the past 40 years.
Two dozen band members later and numerous ups and downs (some have been famously sensationalized in the media), the one thing that has always remained consistent for this psychedelic collective, is front man Mr. Anton Alfred Newcombe.
Tracklisting:
1. Vacuum Boots
2. Who?
3. Oh Lord
4. Caress
5. (David Bowie I Love You) Since I Was Six
6. Straight up and Down
7. Monster
8. Take It From The Man
9. B.S.A.
10. Mary
11. Monkey Puzzle
12. Fucker
13. Dawn
14. Cabin Fever
15. In My Life
16. The Be Song
17. My Man Syd
18. Straight Up And Down -
Visit product page →Available on 180 grm vinyl.
At the risk of further labouring a rather obvious point, with Thank God for Mental Illness, their third collection of absolutely stunning music in 1996, the Brian Jonestown Massacre parallels the prolific and effortless brilliance of the Rolling Stones at their fevered late-1960s peak; the sheer scope of their achievements is stunning, rarely are bands quite so productive, or quite so consistently amazing.
Thank God is the BJM's down-and-dirty country-blues outing, all 12-odd tracks supposedly recorded on a single July day at a cost of just $17.36 .
Originally Newcombe was heavily influenced by The Rolling Stones' psychedelic phase - the name comes from Stones guitarist Brian Jones combined with a reference to cult leader Jim Jones, but his work in the 2000s has expanded into aesthetic dimensions approximating the UK Shoegazing genre of the 1990s and incorporating influences from world music, especially Middle Eastern and Brazilian music.
CD Tracklisting:
1. Spanish Bee
2. It Girl
3. 13
4. Ballad Of Jim Jones
5. Those Memories
6. Stars
7. Free And Easy
8. Down
9. Cause I Love Her
10. Too Crazy To Care
11. Talk-Action
12. True Love
13. Sound Of Confusion
Vinyl Tracklisting:
1. Spanish Bee
2. It Girl
3. 13
4. Ballad Of Jim Jones
5. Those Memories
6. Stars
7. Free And Easy
8. Down
9. Cause I Love Her
10. Too Crazy To Care
11. Talk-Action
12. True Love -
Visit product page →The Brian Jonestown Massacre's sophomore album does, as promised, spring forth from the Rolling Stones' long-underrated 1967 masterpiece Their Satanic Majesties Request, copping not only Mick and Keith's leering bad-boy attitude but also their their rock-and-roll-circus spirit.
Opening with the brilliant "All Around You (Intro)," a tongue-in-cheek guide to the mind-altering journey ahead, the record is a kaleidoscopic, drug-fueled freakout like the Stones' namesake album, Second Request is painted by Eastern drones and psychedelic tangents, each track bubbling with dozens of sound effects including sitars, mellotrons, farfisas, didgeridoos, tablas, congas, and glockenspiels..
Travelling through the past, darkly, the Massacre arrives on the other side unscathed; their music is too rich to be merely retro, and too knowing to be merely slavish the Stones themselves haven't made a record this strong or entertaining in years.
With The Dandy Warhols, The Brian Jonestown Massacre is one of the subjects of the documentary DIG!, winner of the 2004 Grand Jury Prize Documentary at Sundance. DIG! is also a part of the Permanent Collection of the NY Museum of Modern Art. Since the release of DIG!, the band has achieved increasing critical acclaim and recognition, and has performed at Cochella and Lollapalooza in 2005 with special mentions from the NY Times and Washington Post. They have also toured the UK, Japan, Australia, as well as Continental Europe.
Tracklisting:
1. All Around You (Intro)
2. Cold To The Touch
3. Donovan Said
4. In India You
5. No Come Down
6. (Around You) Everywhere
7. Jesus
8. Before You
9. Miss June '75
10. Anenome
11. Baby [Prepraise]
12. Feelers
13. Bad Baby
14. Cause, I Lover
15. (Baby) Love of My Life
16. Slowdown (Fuck Tomorrow)
17. Here It Comes
18. All Around You (Outro) -
Visit product page →Third World Pyramid is the first album that was fully recorded & produced at Anton's new Cobra Studio in Berlin.
It is the 15th full length release from the Brian Jonestown Massacre recorded from early 2016.
Featuring Ricky Maymi, Dan Allaire, Joel Gion, Collin Hegna & Ryan Van Kriedt from the band.
Also Emil Nikolaisen from the Norwegian band Serena-Maneesh joins the band on this album , plus vocal performance Tess Parks and Katy Lane.
Anton Newcombe has been a very busy man these past 2 years, kicking off with the critically acclaimed Brian Jonestown Massacre album Revelation'in May 2014.
After a successful UK and European tour, the BJM followed this up with the +- EP (Nov 2014). 2015 saw the release of Musique de film imaginé'(April); an imaginary film soundtrack album featuring the track Bonbon'which has, ironically, been used in Dheepan'; the Palme D'or winner at Cannes film festival 2015.
In June, Anton and Tess Parks embarked on a well received tour of the UK and Europe to support the release of I Declare Nothing'. Anton finished the year with a BJM mini-album release entitled Mini-Album Thingy Wingy'. The band have been touring the world since November 2015, playing Australia, New Zealand, and then in 2016 USA, Canada & Europe.
They will play Desert Daze at Joshua Tree National Park in October and finish their tour in South America playing Argentina and Chile in November
Vinyl LP Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. Good Mourning
2. Government Beard
3. Don't Get Lost
4. Assignment Song
Side B:
1. Oh Bother
2. Third World Pyramid
3. Like describing colors to a blind man on acid
4. Lunar Surf Graveyard
5. The Sun Ship
CD Tracklisting:
1. Good Mourning
2. Governmant Beard
3. Don't Get Lost
4. Assignement Song
5. Oh Bother
6. Third World Pyramid
7. Like Describing Colors To A Blind Man On Acid
8. Lunar Surf Graveyard
9. The Sun Ship -
Visit product page →Recorded in early & late 2009 between Iceland & Berlin with an US tour inbetween the Brian Jonestown Massacre move forward with this new full length album, Who Killed Sergeant Pepper ?.
Working with musicans of the likes of Will Carruthers (ex Spacemen 3 & Spiritualized), Unnur Andrea Einarsdottir (who recorded vocals on the last BJM album) & Felix from the Russian band Amazing Electronic Talking Cave & other musicians from France, Germany, & Iceland, this is the band's most multi cultured re-lease to date, while obviously keeping the band's trademark style throughout this album.
13 tracks ranging from the ambient bhangra beats, to rock, to shoegazing , to gypsy influences of Eastern Europe music & then back again to the subliminal all twinged with the psychedelia of the band.
Tracklisting:
1. Tempo 116.7 (Reaching For Dangerous Levels Of Sobriety)
2. Tunger Hnifur
3. Lets Go Fucking Mental
4. White Music
5. This Is The First Of Your Last Warning (Icelandic)
6. This Is The One Thing We Did Not Want To Have Happen
7. The One
8. Someplace Else Unknown
9. Detka ! Detka ! Detka !
10. Super Fucked
11. Our Time
12. Feel It
13. Felt Tipped Pictures Of Ufo's -
Sold outVisit product page →Since forming in early 2007, The Pains of Being Pure At Heart have become one of the most talked about pop bands in years. Their distinctive brand of noisy pop is a tidy distillation of all the great noise-pop precedents - early MBV, House of Love, Pale Saints, Rocketship - but with that incredible exuberance and energy that the Pains bring to every song.
They have released a handful of singles on classy labels like Slumberland, Fortuna POP!, Atomic Beat and Cloudberry, each one issued to greater anticipation and even wilder reception. Critical acclaim has come from such varied quarters as NME, The Guardian, Pitchfork, The Times, Mojo, Drowned In Sound, Indie-MP3, Clash Magazine and uncountable others.Following up the band's ace \"Everything With You\" single and whirlwind Swedish tour, we are delighted to bring you their self-titled debut album.
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart is an instant classic, packed with brilliantly-executed pop gems that blend the rush of youthful enthusiasm with crafty arrangements, well-honed tunes and buckets of guitar racket. Drawing on the sparkling legacy of the best of 80s and 90s pop, POBPAH update the timeless noisy pop template with a thoroughly modern viewpoint and a very distinctive, playful personality.
There is something instantly identifiable about a Pains tune, and it is the essential rightness of their records that has captured the attention of pop fans around the world and raised anticipation levels for this album to a near-fever pitch.The Pains of Being Pure At Heart delivers on this promise with perfect assurance. Smashing tunes like Come Saturday and Young Adult Friction are classic three minute masterpieces that simply beg the be played on repeat. Stay Alive and Gentle Sons show the band can slow it down and still rock it, and Hey Paul is as brash a slice of noise-blast guitar pop as you'll hear all year.
Weighing in at a flawlessly-conceived ten songs, this is all the album that Pains fans had hoped for. Handily transcending easy pigeonholes like indie pop and indie rock, it is just a great album that shows a smart young band fulfilling their potential and crafting a very convincing statement of purpose.
1. Contender
2. Come Saturday
3. Young Adult Friction
4. This Love Is Fucking Right!
5. The Tenure Itch
6. Stay Alive
7. Everything With You
8. A Teenager In Love
9. Hey Paul
10. Gentle Sons
