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The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

Noise pop and indie rock on the debut from the New York band

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7.5

Label
Fortuna Pop
UK Release date
09/02/2009
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  1. 9.0 |   No Ripcord

    We may be on the crest of a new-wave, noise-pop re-birth... The Pains of Being Pure at Heart can easily be at the forefront of this scene because, simply put, they have the best hooks.  
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  2. 9.0 |   Prefix

    There is something distinctly perfect about the naivety that the Pains of Being Pure at Heart seem to effortlessly inject into every bouncy ballad of young love and young living that makes their self-titled debut not only a welcome throwback but a much needed vacation from over-calculation
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  3. 8.4 |   Pitchfork

    A slyly confident debut that mixes sparkling melodies with an undercurrent of sad bastard mopery, and you're just being a dick if you think the past has some kind of patent on that. That's just the way good pop music works.
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  4. 8.0 |   The Quietus

    Their sound oozes an ease and elegance that can only come with unstudied glory and their considerable inexperience... Not a note is wasted, not a tune possessing more ennui than it should by rights be milked for. Pure economy.
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  5. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    An impeccable debut way beyond their years.
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  6. 8.0 |   NME

    Pure indie-pop to hold close to your heart.
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  7. 7.0 |   Blender

    For these kids, My Bloody Valentine records aren’t psychedelic visions—they’re makeout music.
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  8. 6.0 |   Clash

    Switch on, turn up, enjoy – if you’re not beaming two minutes in, you’ve got the wrong record on.
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  9. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    Anyone convinced that the C86 bands represent a nadir of tweeness will hate it - while anyone who thinks that Britpop and dance music ruined indie will fall hopelessly in love
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