Name: The Echo Of Pleasure
Brand: The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

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pnbw003lp

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Limited edition

Release date

2017-10-06

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096962313920

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pnbw001

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2017-09-22

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Artist

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

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Indie Pop / Shoegaze

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Painbow

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart is an indie pop band from New York City, founded in 2007. The live members of the band include Jessica Weiss, Jacob Sloan, Anton Hochheim, and Christoph Hochheim.

In a recent Facebook post, Kip Berman, the founder of the band, announced his departure from The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart to focus on his new project called The Natvral. This decision comes after significant life changes and a shift in musical direction. Despite different lineups throughout their career, what animated their music remained consistent until now. With this change, Kip aims to express himself in a new and different way.

While Kip pursues his solo endeavor with The Natvral, other former members have also embarked on various projects such as Massage by Alex Naidus, Store Front by Peggy Wang, The Ice Choir / Tenser Timpani by Kurt Feldman, Ablebody + live performances with Jerry Paper by Christoph Hochheim, Dondadi by Connor Hanwick, Jeanines / Dream Diary by Jacob Sloan,
Beverly / Public Practice by Drew Citron,
Beach Fossils by Anton Hochheim,
Showtime Goma by Jen Goma,
Fear of Men by Jess Weiss,
@shopnoctiluca (Elspeth Vance),
Jess Krichelle (visual artist) by Jess Krichelle Rojas,
Arch Of Love by Chris Schackerman,

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart have long set the benchmark for big-hearted, idealistic pop songs. With The Echo of Pleasure, The Pains push beyond their many inspirations and embrace their role as indiepop heroes in their own right. Showcasing the deft songwriting of frontman Kip Berman, The Pains' fourth album is their most confident and accomplished. After three critically-acclaimed records, 2009's The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, 2011's Belong and 2014's Days of Abandon received praise from The New York Times, Pitchfork, The Guardian and Rolling Stone, they have put together a collection of songs that possess a timeless grandeur, deeper and more satisfying than anything the band has done since their iconic debut.

It's an album that reflects the band's most joyous moments while maintaining Berman's candid and critical lyricism, free of the self-abasing insecurity of youth. "The album is loving. The music is heavier, more expansive," he says. "To me, songs about love shouldn't be thought of as light. Love is big- sometimes it's emphatic, overwhelming or simple - other times it's tense, anxious or just exhausting. But at its best, it makes you want to be something better." 

The Echo Of Pleasure

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