The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

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The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Live in Seattle (2009)
Live in Seattle (2009)
General information
origin New York , United States
Genre (s) Indie rock , twee pop , noise rock
founding 2007
Website thepainsofbeingpureatheart.com
Current occupation
Kip Berman
Vocals, keyboard
Jessica Weiss
Bass , vocals
Jacob Sloan
guitar
Christoph Hochheim
singing
Elspeth Vance
Anton Hochheim
former members
Peggy Wang
Connor Hanwick
Chris Van Helsing
Kurt Feldman
Alex Naidus
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Belong
  US 92 04/16/2011 (2 weeks)
Days of Abandon
  US 168 05/31/2014 (1 week)

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart is an American indie rock band from New York .

history

The band was founded in 2007 by Alex Naidus, Kip Berman, Kurt Feldman and Peggy Wang, the band name is taken from the title of a short story written by a friend of Berman. Originally intended as a fun project for Wang's birthday party, the band released a self-titled EP on the Painbow record label that same year . In the following time they played a large number of concerts, sometimes only in front of 3–5 people, and thus increased their level of awareness in the local scene. In addition, the band achieved increased awareness through web logs , such as an art blog for the New York Times . They gained international attention when Pitchfork Media reported on the band in the Best New Music category . In 2009 they finally released their first studio album The Pains of Being Pure at Heart , now on the larger label Slumberland Records . The album received mostly positive reviews from the international music press. This was followed by tours in America and Europe and the release of the EP Higher than the Stars . The third album Days of Abandon was released in 2014. The release of the new album "The Echo of Pleasure" was announced for July 14, 2017.

style

Stylistically, the band is often classified between twee pop and noise rock ; however, the band defends itself against such categorization.

Discography

  • The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (EP; Painbow; 2007)
  • The Pains of Being Pure at Heart / The Parallelograms (split single with The Parallelograms; Atomic Beat; 2008)
  • Searching for the Now Volume 4 (split single with Summer Cats; Slumberland; 2008)
  • Everything With You (single; Slumberland; 2008)
  • The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (LP; Slumberland Records; 2009)
  • Young Adult Friction (Single; Slumberland; 2009)
  • Come Saturday (single; Slumberland; 2009)
  • Higher than the Stars (EP; Slumberland; 2009)
  • Say No to Love (Single; Slumberland US + Fortuna Pop UK; 2010)
  • Heart in Your Heartbreak (Single; Slumberland; 2010)
  • Belong (single; Slumberland; 2011)
  • Belong (LP; Slumberland; 2011)
  • Days of Abandon (LP; Yebo Music; 2014)

swell

  1. US chart history . Retrieved February 3, 2015
  2. Dom Gourlay: The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Interview . Contact Music. Retrieved January 17, 2010.
  3. a b c Zack Turowski: Interview: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (w / Kip, Peggy, Alex) . Aural States. March 2009. Archived from the original on April 21, 2009. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 17, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / auralstates.com
  4. a b Pains of Being Pure at Heart discography . Archived from the original on January 26, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 17, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thepainsofbeingpureatheart.com
  5. Jon Caramanica: CMJ: A Hard Sound Not Far From 'Gossip Girl' . NY Times Arts Beat Blog. October 2008. Retrieved January 17, 2010.
  6. ^ Ian Cohen: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Record Review . Pitchfork Media. February 2009. Retrieved January 17, 2010.
  7. Review of the 2nd album on plattentests.de , accessed on February 3, 2015
  8. ^ Announcement "The Echo of Pleasure" , accessed June 15, 2017

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