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The Pains of Being Pure at Heart release new LP + single “Belong”.

The brand new album and single are to be released March 28 on Fortuna Pop!

The Pains of Being Pure Heart have recruited the services of what seems like two unlikely conspirators, in the form of master producer Flood and renowned mixer Alan Moulder.Only a few seconds into the title track however, and it makes perfect sense.

The majestic “The Body” gallops along and goes deeper, darker than they ever have, painting a bleak portrait of decaying relationships, “Too Tough” is one of the most wrenching, yearning songs they’ve written to date, while previous single “Heart In Your Heartbreak”, with its handclaps, infectious chorus and late-breaking synth stabs, sounds like the very essence of bittersweet romance.

The new single meanwhile, is also the title track, and sounds positively anthemic, with buzzsawing, Smashing Pumpkins-circa-Gish guitars slicing intermittently through Pains’ beautifully jangling wall of noise.

Taken in total, it adds up to a glorious vision of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – vibrant and expansive, more muscular and complex to be sure, but without losing any of the fragile beauty and inimitable charm that marked them out in the first instance.

TRACKLISTING

1. Belong
2. Heaven’s Gonna Happen Now
3. Heart In Your Heartbreak
4. The Body
5. Anne With An E
6. Even in Dreams
7. My Terrible Friend
8. Girl of 1000 Dreams
9. Too Tough
10. Strange

UPCOMING LIVE DATES

February

24 – Magnet, Berlin, Germany

26 – Gleis 22, Munsters, Germany

27 – Bitterzoet, Amsterdam, Holland

March

1 – Kortrijk, De Kreun, Belgium

3 – King’s College, London