★★★★★
With the promise of a glorious summer looming ahead of us, it seems NYC quartet The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart have chosen the perfect time of year to release their third album. The shoegaze and noise influences of previous collections have been largely shelved in favour of shiny, happy indie pop. Big, joyous chords are coaxed out of layers upon layers of ringing guitars, building a life-affirming record that belies its relatively timid and inauspicious opening...
- www.clashmusic.com
2014-06-13
★★★★★
TPOBPAH have progressed from the fey C86 hyper-jangles of their first two records to glossy pop on this third album. It's unfortunate that it happens to be the sort of sizzly '80s teen flick synth-pop that the world and its weekend detention group has been making for years, to the point where you half expect Insane Clown Posse to cover Fleetwood Mac's 'Everywhere', but still...
- www.nme.com
2014-06-02
★★★★★
God this is meh. This is whole new level of meh. This is maximum meh. How is that even possible? Isn't meh supposed to be, by definition, nothingy, incapable of inciting anything beyond indifference? To their credit, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart have sought out and epitomised that elusive oxymoron of extreme meh-iness. A tremehndous achievemehnt.
Days Of Abandon will utterly meh you down...
- thequietus.com
2014-05-30
★★★★★
Kip Berman (second left) now works alone.
Amid the ashes of the New York nu-gaze scene (Girls, the Drums, Crystal Stilts) 2014's TPOBPAH exist undisturbed by competitors, or bandmates for that matter - frontman Kip Berman now works alone, collaborating with various musicians to create the aptly titled Days of Abandon. Pains' third is Berman's distilled vision of the band: it's lighter and brighter than their slightly fuzzy previous LPs...
- www.theguardian.com
2014-05-30
★★★★★
Label:
Yebo
Release Date:
02/06/2014
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Five years is an awful long time in the world of music, as The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart can ably demonstrate. From their humble beginnings culminating in 2009's self-title debut through to 2011's Smashing Pumpkins indebted follow-up Belong, the metamorphic transformation undertaken to get to long-awaited third album Days Of Abandon symbolizing a new found maturity among other...
- drownedinsound.com
2014-05-29
★★★★★
Five years is an awful long time in the world of music, as can ably demonstrate. From their humble beginnings culminating in 2009's self-title debut through to 2011's Smashing Pumpkins indebted follow-up , the metamorphic transformation undertaken to get to long-awaited third album symbolizing a new found maturity among other things. Whereas both its predecessors put a heavy emphasis on distortion and feedback, lets the songs breathe and ultimately speak for themselves...
- www.drownedinsound.com
2014-05-28
★★★★★
On their third album, Days of Abandon, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart frontman Kip Berman is a young romantic in a state of flux. The Pains' still-stellar self-titled debut and 2011's Flood-helmed, fully Corgan-ized Belong put precious little distance between Berman's heart and his sleeve: these were head-spinning, chest-swelling records, drunk on romance, dizzy with possibility...
- pitchfork.com
2014-05-16
★★★★★
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Release Date: May 13, 2014Label: Yebo
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart have wisely taken two steps back and one step forward for their latest, Days of Abandon. The Smashing Pumpkins-esque guitars and production of their sophomore album, Belong, are gone; but so is the lo-fi shimmer of their 2009 self-titled debut and the early singles that spurred their initial press attention...
- www.spin.com
2014-05-17
★★★★★
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart frontman Kip Berman achieved as many of his life goals as possible right out of the gate: releasing music on one of his favorite labels, appearing on late-night TV, working with famed U.K. producer Flood (Depeche Mode, Nick Cave) and finding an appreciative audience in every city of a world tour. So, what's the next step? Shake everything up, apparently...
- www.altpress.com
2014-05-16
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