The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Everything With You/The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

Seems to be the time of year for bands with names that need reducing to acronyms … TPOBPAH hail from New York, and ply their trade playing a brand of indie that harks back to the shoegazing of early-Ride, Slowdive etc. Fair took me back to my schooldays, so they did.

Everything With You features breathy male vocals and sweet female backing over a continuously overdriven guitar riff, before a good trebly guitar break at about the two minute mark. ‘The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart’ is more of a thumping tune, being driven along mostly by the drums. Currently touring with The Wedding Present before a few smaller dates of their own in the middle of the month (I’m thinking of checking them out at Sneaky Pete’s in Edinburgh on December 11th on the strength of this release) they deserve all the success they get in winning over new fans with this new take on an old idea. Unfortunately I haven’t a clue when their album’s coming out but with a dozen or so songs of this quality they should get some decent recognition from the likes of the NME etc.

Check out the band’s live dates here!