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The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart 'Heart In Your Heartbreak' Vinyl 7" - Magenta
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Visit product page →With their debut eponymous album, released in 2009, Brooklyn quartet The Pains of Being Pure at Heart effortlessly captured the hearts of eager audiences across the globe and winning them over with their twinkling, saucer eyed indie pop.
For their upcoming album however, to be released on Fortuna Pop in the spring, the band have cast their net further, creating a sound that is richer, fuller, and more expansive, of which the new single Heart in The Heartbreak is a tantalising little taster.Recorded earlier this year with Alan Moulder and Flood (who, between them, are responsible for some of the most seminal moments from the likes of Smashing Pumpkins, U2, Nine Inch Nails, My Bloody Valentine and many others), Heart in the Heartbreak retains every bit of Pains' uncanny knack for marrying a beautifully wistful lyric (in this case every thought of the look in her eye/ like a cold California sky) with a melody that could stop hearts at twenty paces, except now the band have gone widescreen, in the most exhilarating way possible.
The melodies are that much more euphoric, the guitars that bit bigger, the whole thing just that much more epic. And when the song peaks with Peggy Wang's jubilant keyboard lines and Kip Berman singing about how even if she'd stay, you know it's wrong you realise all over again just what made The Pains of Being Pure at Heart so special in the first place, a sentiment only reinforced by the star-crossed, swoonsome perfection of B-side The One, featuring the first recorded sightings of harmonies on a Pains record.
Tracklisting:
1. Heart In Your Heartbreak
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Side A:
Young Adult Friction
Side B:
Ramona -
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The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart 'Belong / I Wanna Go All The Way' Vinyl 7" - Blue
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The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart 'Belong / I Wanna Go All The Way' Vinyl 7" - Blue
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Visit product page →By now, you would probably have heard the gorgeously yearning slice of swoon pop that is Heart in Your Heartbreak, the first single from The Pains of Being Pure at Heart's much anticipated upcoming album.
And you might have noticed that while all the essential qualities that mark out the band so distinctly are still there ' shimmering melodies, Kip Berman's wistful lyrics and beguiling, quavering vocals ' their sound has also been ratcheted up to the next level, courtesy of producers Alan Moulder and Flood, who, for the next step in Pains' career, have created a canvas that is as lush as it is expansive.Belong sounds even bigger, with buzzsawing, Smashing Pumpkins-circa-Gish guitars slicing intermittently through Pains' beautifully jangling wall of noise.
And even though it comes equipped with hooks to spare and an infectious, anthemic climax of we don't belong, the sweet melodies bely its acute study of restlessness and human (dis)connection (What to do/ nothing new/ we've tried each other/ let's try another, Berman sighs at one point) and manages to lodge itself in the listener's brain long after its short but sweet running time is over.
Tracklisting:
1. Belong
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Side A:
Come Saturday
Side B:
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Not content to rest on the laurels of having one of the best and most talked-about albums of 2009, The Pains of Being Pure At Heart are back with Higher Than The Stars, four brand-new songs that do what the band does best ' breathe fresh life into indie-pop with exuberance, charm and of course quality tunes.
This remix 12" contains Saint Etienne and Skanfrom's takes on the New Wave-flavored bliss of "Higher Than The Stars" together with DJ Downfall's radical re-imagining of the 80s-esque "Falling Over." We were thrilled to hear how these producers remodeled the Pains' originals and hope you will be too.
Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. Higher Than The Stars (Saint Etienne Visits Lord Spank Remix)Side B:
1. Falling Over (DJ Downfall Sprechenbann Remix)
2. Higher Than The Stars (Skanfrom Remix)