The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

"Say No to Love" 7"(Slumberland Records US + Fortuna Pop UK)

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A. Say No to Love
B. Lost Saint

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All Music Guide - Tim Sendra
Sounds like a slice of watermelon tastes, feels like the wind blowing through your hair as you ride down a back street on your way to the beach, and makes the melancholy of resigned heartbreak seem like exactly the right mood for this summer.

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On The Pains of Being Pure at Heart LP

New York Times
On its excellent self-titled debut album there’s a mild hauteur drawn from new wave, a thickness derived from shoegaze-pop and a pulse passed down from dance-punk. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart might paint within the lines, but they do so with panache... Warm on the outside, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart seethe with refreshingly mordant wit."

Pitchfork - Best New Music - 8.4
Songs that will appeal beyond the confines of subcultures: Anyone with a weakness for trebly, melancholy pop music will find a lot to like about this record.

Drowned in Sound
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart have crafted an impeccable debut way beyond their years, and any misconceptions about them being mere revivalists will surely be diminished instantaneously upon hearing this most accomplished of long players

NME
it’s much more than the sum of its parts and too effortlessly effervescent to be studied. Pure indie-pop to hold close to your heart.

Aquarium Drunkard
a blast of jangle goodness and winning boy/girl vocals that doesn’t let up from beginning to end. When people think of great pop music, this is the kind of record for which they long

Skatterbrain
My infallible love for The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart is no secret at all. I think I summed it up to the best of my cheesy abilities in the fanzine included with their Atomic Beat split 7" earlier this year. What they're doing is beautiful and perfect and wonderfully genuine – AND not to mention – totally fucking consistent! Have they got a bad song? Nope. And they probably never will as long as they keep moving in the direction they're headed in. God I love pop songs.

Chicago Reader
"Their recent Slumberland debut is nearly flawless: rife with urgency and big hooks that keen and carom through epic guitar fuzz."

Dusted
This is an important record for these times, a game changer

Colour Me Impressed
The best indiepop album of the last 10 years and what may possibly be the best album of 2009

Sound Bites
A total charmer: 10 songs, endless hooks, clever lyrics, bad puns, and fuzzy guitars.

Higher Than the Stars EP - (Slumberland + Fortuna Pop)

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On Higher Than the Stars EP

Allmusic
The band didn't really need to prove that there were lovely songs beneath all the noise, but they truly have;.it's the kind of song that will be at the end of the 2009 mixtape staple among lovers of great pop songs, indie or otherwise.

AU
A glimpse into infinite possibilities. Not even the sky is the limit.

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