| When |
09/06/2011
from 06:30 PM to 10:00 PM |
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| Where | Trinity Centre |
| Contact Name TEST | info@3ca.org.uk |
| Contact Phone | 0117 935 1200 |
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No Need To Shout Presents
The Pains Of Being Pure at Heart - Live
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Doors 7.30pm
£14* adv + BF
(*correction from previous listed price)
14+ (under 16s must be accompanied by an adult)
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The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
New York-based musicians Alex Naidus (bass), Kip Berman (guitar/vocals), Kurt Feldman (drums), and Peggy Wang-East (keyboards/vocals) came together to form the Pains of Being Pure at Heart in 2007. With its wall-of-fuzz guitar stylings and sugary pop underpinnings, the band nodded to any number of old-school indie pop and shoegaze acts, most notably Black Tambourine and My Bloody Valentine. The band recorded a few tracks soon after forming, which were released as a self-titled 3" CD-R on Cloudberry Records. A self-titled EP followed soon after for Painbow. During 2008 the band released a number of limited-edition split singles on Atomic Beat Records and Slumberland. Their first album, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, was released in February of 2009 on Slumberland and the good reviews and positive press (including a spot on Late Night with Carson Daly) made them one of the most talked about bands of early 2009. After the release of the summer 2010 single Say No to Love, legendary producers Flood (Smashing Pumpkins) and Alan Moulder (My Bloody Valentine) were hired to give the band's sound a slicker, more powerful sound. The resulting album, Belong, was released by Slumberland in March of 2011.
Pitchfork: Best New Music
It's immediately appealing in the same way their debut was-- Kip Berman's aw-shucks lyrics ("She was the heart in your heartbreak/ She was the miss in your mistake") arcing with effortless melody, with the underrated and understated rhythm section propelling everything forward, at least until the dramatic pause.
But while the interior decoration of "Heartbreak" is more luxuriant than we're used to from Pains, it's more a matter of spatial relationships than pricey embellishment-- the handclaps, synth beams, and frazzled tone of the guitar solo are the sort of trimmings that marked their economically packed debut, but each is given far more room to breathe and flourish. It's like they've come back from a lavish spa treatment-- an earned indulgence...
The L Magazine
And when we tell you to go buy it, we mean push yourself away from your computer, stand up from your desk, go outside and enjoy the crisp, frigid winter day, as you make your way toward your nearest independent record store*, where you will take a few dollars out of your pocket, and purchase an actual, physical copy of it, which you can hold and feel and smell and admire for being pressed on purple vinyl. When you get it home later, you'll sit on the floor next to your record player and listen to the A-side, "Heart in Your Heartbreak," while doing absolutely nothing else except maybe looking a little more closely at the beautiful, substantial packaging and cover art. When that song is over, you'll flip the record and listen to B-side "The One," still while doing nothing else. Just listening. When you're finished, you might want to listen a few more times. Now you're free to let the rest of your life carry on as usual. Maybe make yourself some dinner. Maybe hang some Christmas decorations. After a little while, or maybe after a few seconds, you'll realize that, jeez, this is how listening to records is supposed to feel. And then you'll realize that, jeez, these two Pains of Being Pure at Heart songs are worlds better than all the really great stuff they've already done, and that, jeez, if this is any indication of what's in store for us on the full-length they've got scheduled for release in March, then we have an awful lot to look forward to.
