This song pines for Winona Ryder circa Reality Bites. It smokes Camel Lights. It wears Doc Martens, sometimes, and sometimes it just goes barefoot. It doesn’t know what it wants, but it’s sure that it knows what the world needs, and it’s sure that its heart is broken. I mean all of this in the best way. This song is the nineties alt-rock movement, from its way of alternating between jangly and fuzz-soaked guitars to its whispering vocals to its Smashing Pumpkins-My Bloody Valentine-Jesus-And-Mary-Chain production. Dig it.
The latest from The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Belong, is set to hit the streets March 29 via Slumberland Records. Keep an eye out for it here.
And go here to read a bit more about the album.
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart “Belong” by Slumberland Records
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Very mid-nineties. I like it. I’ll be keeping this and the Dirty Beaches LP in mind come Mar. 29.
Dug it man. Take a ride on this way-back machine b/c it draws from the best of nineties. Belong indeed brother.
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