Description:	LP on Fortuna Pop inc MP3 code!
	Format:	LP (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Indie Rock
	Label:	Fortuna Pop
	Price:	£11.29
	Availability:	In stock. Dispatched in 1 working day.

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...according to our Brian on 05 January 2010.

Here come The Pains. That's what I'm calling them. Bunch of blissed out indie robins have called themselves The Pains of Being Pure At Heart. That's quite frankly too long a name. I'm having none of it. If The Strokes were The Strokes of my Willy from That Nice Prostitute Sent Me Off Into a Bit of a Sexy Tizz, there'd be less cocaine on the table eh boys? Everyone knows all the pain is this sodding world comes from the heart. Apart from breaking your legs or being run over. Enough! Enough nonsense, the job's in hand, no honestly. Early My Bloody Valentine, Field Mice, Pastels erm.... all the great bands from UK in the late 80's/early 90's rolled into one classic sounding cake with proper fresh songs that make you tingle quite a bit, a spot of The Wedding Present in there, nice bass maneuvers, chiming jangly guitars & fey lyrics from the Bobby Wratten/Bernie Sumner school of lovelorn wistfulness! Anyone remember The Charlottes? They were good. Velocity Girl anyone? Is it C09? Is that a phone network? Enough piss taking, this is a wonderful, incredibly tuneful pastiche of a well loved & timeless guitar-pop sound thus the world is a better place for hot New York kids t' Pains. (Copyright Brian lez Dangeroustrousers 2009) - Quality! Self-titled LP/CD through the legendary Fortuna Pop.

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What their label says...

A limited pressing of 500 on white vinyl, the black vinyk is sold out for the moment at least.. For Fans Of: My Bloody Valentine, The Smiths, The Jesus And Mary Chain, The Vivian Girls, C86. Meet The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, a four-piece from the same New York scene as The Vivian Girls and Crystal Stilts who play dreamy, noisy POP with boy/girl vocals, blissful melodies and blistering drums. Original members Peggy, Kip and Alex came together through a shared love of The Pastels, The Ramones, American indie noisepop legends Black Tambourine and "Sunny Sundae Smile"-era My Bloody Valentine. Now joined by drummer Kurt, The Pains proudly bring you their self-titled debut album and the most infectious slice of pop perfection you will hear all year, a distillation of all the great noise-pop precedents - early MBV, House of Love, JAMC - but with the incredible exuberance and energy that the Pains bring to every song, the excitement of youth just rushing forth and sweeping the listener along. Over ten tracks The Pains demonstrate an absolute mastery of noise/jangle pop, their songs being a perfect distillation of classic pop melody and thrilling, rushing guitar noise that have taste-making blogs across the planet tripping over themselves in search of superlatives. Like their American peers Black Kids and Vampire Weekend, The Pains have a happy knack of taking the classic sounds of the past and at once making them invigorating and fresh, a knack sure to propel them to an audience beyond the blogs and away from the scenester crowd that made their UK tour dates crushed, sweaty and sold-out through word-of-mouth alone. Fantastic press for this has run since Feb this year, see them on tour in June.