[P4K Reviews] The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

electricsound, I'm just curious what some of the records you liked from last year got totally ignored? I'm not trolling, I promise! I don't post that much, but from what I read we have kind of similar tastes in terms of indie pop.

Didn't make it more than a few sentences into the Pfork review, just clicked over to Myspace and the songs are fun, a bit catchy, a bit noisy, very reminiscent of pre-Isn't Anything MBV, Pale Saints, Ride, a bit of Mary Chain and all their collective influences as well. Not original, not bad either!

Nothing wrong with this band, at all. But from one perspective, they are the infamous She Wants Revenge with a different record collection.

Also, read the Psychic Ills album review. Not that that album is great or anything, but the review is basically "WTF YOU MEAN THERE ISN'T A MELODY?!" over and over again.

in before lock

whocares: Je Suis Animal !

The Tartans seem OK

The Ballet, maybe

Why would this thread need to be locked.

rock critic in being less than serious journalism is serious shocker lols

for indie-poppers, i kinda like these guys

I suppose it is serious shocker lols in that one extremely unrelated way.

learn more ilx memes

Thanks, I prefer the thin thread of coherence that runs through them.

yeah, it's a horrible review. inclines me to hate the band, though ian cohen is by no means their fault. "That these second-wavers are getting first-rate attention shouldn't be a worry unless you're into dick-measuring contests about the late-1980s (but I was there) or still holding a grudge against Vivian Girls and Crystal Stilts." no, fuck you.

pitchfork is good for fridays, i guess.

It seems this is a two-dick review.

I would expect nothing less from Ian 'Throb' Cohen.

remind me again why you started this thread?

Thread was started in part because someone likes to pretend to not know how to read:

you're just being a dick if you think the past has some kind of patent on that

is not very well paraphrased as

You're a dick if you discount this

(Although to be fair, this is not a band I would risk taking even a mildly defensive reviewing tone about, or really using the word "dick" -- they're just not that kind of band.)

yeah to be fair it does seem like half of the review is spent preemptively defending the best new music tag. on the other hand it is a review that basically describes the record and what it sounds like, which is something i can get behind.

By the way, I like this band pretty well! What took me a while to wrap my head around -- and what might take the band themselves some adjusting to -- is the idea that music like this would get attention from and seem significant to people outside the indiepop scene. (Which seems to say something, but I'm not sure exactly what yet.)

i think i just have defensive grapes because i super AM into dick-meauring contests about the late 80s

Right...if you say so Nibs.

i think i just have defensive grapes because i super AM into dick-meauring contests about the late 80s

Hmm.

hmm is the new ...

on first listen this reminded me of ecstasy and wine-era MBV (not a diss in the least)

actually i don't know why i felt the need to qualify that as not-a-diss. this is very good tho

electricsound, I'm just curious what some of the records you liked from last year got totally ignored? I'm not trolling, I promise! I don't post that much, but from what I read we have kind of similar tastes in terms of indie pop.

― jonathan - stl, Saturday, February 7, 2009 3:08 AM (8 hours ago)

well, #1 would be the for against album. and though i came to it late, the charmparticles album also seemed to get quite a bit less interest than a record so completely wonderful should deserve

I can't believe these guys are worth all the gnashing of teeth. They're pleasant enough and kind of boring; Pitchfork is Pitchfork. News at 11?

I could dance to this.

I like it, but I'd be more excited by it if half of my record collection didn't consist of bands that pretty much sound exactly like this.

so wait this band is not from the UK?

this is a very boring clusterfuck thread, try harder

I like it, but I'd be more excited by it if half of my record collection didn't consist of bands that pretty much sound exactly like this.

Oh my god you could not be more OTM.

Playing the tiny Black Cat Backstage room in DC Monday night. Can't decide whether they're worth a late worknight. Maybe the old DC Slumberland scene will be out in force.

I skipped the show. A late start and I saw many of their influences years ago.

Check out the last question to them in this interview

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/blackplasticbag/2009/02/09/qa-the-pains-of-being-pure-at-heart/

WCP: Do you ever feel like you’re maybe a little too much like older Slumberland bands? Do you feel like your bring your own voice to that music?

Berman: I do, because it’s my voice on the record. It’s us playing it in 2009. We’re not too hero worshipful. We’re respectful of all the tradition, but the lyrics are really personal and really distinct and about our lives and our experiences in our world right now. We’re never in danger of slipping into time capsule mode. We feel very alive at the moment, we don’t necessarily want to live in a different time or place at all.

hey guys if it's OK with you I'm going to totally hate this band sight unseen for their name having the phrase "pure AT heart" in it instead of "pure OF heart." even if they did it on purpose to be 'funny' or something.

hey guys if it's OK with you I'm going to totally hate this band sight unseen for their name having the phrase "pure AT heart" in it instead of "pure OF heart." even if they did it on purpose to be 'funny' or something.

― some dude, Tuesday, February 10, 2009 11:45 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark

Then you'd be missing out on a fucking awesome band for a stupid reason.

now that i'm not drunk and in a good mood i can concede that i do like quite a few of this band's tracks, particularly 'come saturday', but

maybe a little too much like older Slumberland bands

i WISH. if they can come up with a track that touches the likes of 'february fourteenth', even if it is utterly derivative, then i will love them unreservedly

and

fucking awesome band

possibly a bit of a stretch

i havent read this whole thing so idk if it's a joeky thread or not but 'the tenure itch' is a really nice song and reminds me of the stone roses. the rest isnt bad, a little samey but it's just their first album

speaking of the stone roses and derivative bands that aren't a slouch in the songs department, have a listen to The Ruling Class (particularly 'umbrella folds')

fucking awesome band

possibly a bit of a stretch

― electrodribble sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, February 13, 2009 8:46 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark

Says who? I count half the album as potential singles.

hey guys if it's OK with you I'm going to totally hate this band sight unseen for their name having the phrase "pure AT heart" in it instead of "pure OF heart." even if they did it on purpose to be 'funny' or something.
― some dude, Tuesday, February 10, 2009 11:45 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark

Then you'd be missing out on a fucking awesome band for a stupid reason.

― Mahatma Blagojevich (redmond), Friday, February 13, 2009 9:39 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it's not like i was going to listen to them even if they didn't have an annoying name.

lol @ calling this band "fucking awesome"

these guys remind of the primitives -- not that they sound like them, but it's this sense of lots of elements of past things i like or love taken in a very deliberate prefab way and welded together so the seams barely show. i can't not like it, it's genetically engineered to please me. but i'm conscious of the engineering, and listening to it makes me feel a little indulgent.

They did a 30 minute gig the other night-Malitz from the Washington Post loved it-

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postrock/2009/02/the_pains_of_being_pure_at_hea.html

actually agree with Paper Plans in a way - they do seem built to please us by the most direct route possible.

(never really thought of Primitives that way though!)

well my reaction the first time i heard "crash" was "oh, debbie harry singing with the ramones -- of course i love it." pains of being etc. give me a similar well-duh vibe. which means i'm sort of skeptical now, but at some point i'll give in and spend a week listening to nothing but.

If you don't like the simple pleasures of a great pop song, then you should just go back to listening to your hard bop jazz and stfu.

new album is just kinda whatever but man the first one is totally a classic

I think my favorite is the stuff from the interim between the 1st and 2nd albums. This one's okay, though I believe everyone in the band except the singer is a new hire.

New one is rather good, much better than the last. Probably relative to how much like the field mice they sound, closer to wratten the better.

Been surprised at how well the new record's stood up. I've listened to it a number of times and think it's probably as good as the s/t; but any band that's made the same album 3 times is going to fly under the radar. Love "Simple to Sure" > "Kelly" and "Eurydice" > "Masokissed".

I guess if you're going to ape your entire sound, do it as well as these guys do (see also: Yuck's debut).

Probably reductionist to post this in here, but Peggy Wang from TPOBPAH has a new band called Store Front. They put out their debut EP today and frontwoman Amy Rose Spiegel has a nice voice. Will appeal to fans of Pains and shimmery indie rock songs between 2:30 - 3:00.

https://storefrontnyc.bandcamp.com/

Task EP: https://open.spotify.com/album/5rcF3nAW28mDCcSJGBaOfX

Press: https://www.stereogum.com/2072593/store-front-rip-the-price-off/music/

repost it over here so we can build up some indie pop discussion momentum:

Not Pop Not Indie Shambhala 2020 Thread

wait wrong thread, here:

Rolling Indiepop/Twee/Jangle 2020