The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart They began their journey there 2007. In its three founding members (Kip Berman, The singer, guitarist and main composer; Alex Naidus, bass guitarist; y Peggy Wang, keyboardist) there was a lot of admiration shared by bands like Smashing Pumpkins, The Field Mice, Black Tambourine y Nirvana. When they met, They knew how to put all that through a sieve that led them to success., inside and outside your country, having as a compass The Jesus And Mary Chain o My Bloody Valentine, but without forgetting The Smiths. Romantic compositions with a somewhat neurotic guitar fuzz, melodies with a complex point and a lot of emotional resonance. A noise-pop that was hooked, fresco, who did not hide his limitations because he did not hide his great flag either., that of youth.
They first attracted attention MySpace (Yeah, we talk about those times) and with his first EP, of 2007 and self-published, but when in 2009 their self-titled debut LP came out on the label Slumberland Records, songs like “Contender”, “Come Saturday” y “This Love Is Fucking Right” they flew high, with reviews on websites like Pitchfork y Stereogum clinching the play. The second album, “Belong” (2011), he made his wave even bigger and higher. It was in March of that year where they gave no less than eleven concerts at the South By Southwest of Austin. Maybe some more. There they had already recruited Kurt Feldman like battery. It was his dream team. They arrived at # 92 in Billboard 200 American and were also Top 100 in countries like Belgium, France, United Kingdom… y Spain. But by the time the curtain rose on their third album, “Days Of Abandon” (2014), Peggy Wang y Alex Naidus They had stopped being part of the training. With a growing influence of new wave and eighties pop, They continued publishing works - read the albums “The Echo Of Pleasure” (2017) and a full version of the album Tom Petty “Full Moon Ferver” in 2019, as well as a couple of EPS-, with different musicians accompanying both in the studio and on stage Kip Berman, who remained at the helm as the ship's sole captain And in November 2019 Berman announced the end of The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, with him starting a new solo project from there, The Natvral. Until August 2024 They announced that they were returning to tour with their original line-up, something that hasn't happened since they finished the tour of «Belong». So at the beginning of summer we will have a new helping of their adhesive and eternally youthful noise-pop.
