The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Becoming one of 2009’s most-talked-about buzzbands on the strength of their eponymous debut long player, New York-based The Pains of Being Pure at Heart are an indie-pop band with warm center elements of dream-gaze and twee. Formed in 2007, the longtime friends of Alex Naidus (bass) and Kip Berman (guitar/vocals) worked in a cubicle together and shared an appreciation of distortion-heavy hardcore, punk music and noise pop, acts as varied as lo-fi twee outfit Black Tambourine and New Jersey punk band, Titus Andronicus. Their fuzz-and-treble sound has become a witty amalgamation of such acts—the type of band the members of POBPAH would want to listen to.
With the addition of newly met chum Peggy Wang-East (keyboards/vocals)... Read More
- Genre:
- Rock, Alternative/Indie, Twee
- City Of Origin:
- Brooklyn, ,New York United States
- Formed Date:
- 2007
