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Higher Than the Stars EP - (Slumberland + Fortuna Pop)
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On Higher Than the Stars EP
Pitchfork - 8.0
At their core, Pains aren't about scuzz or even shoegaze, they're a classic bookish indie pop band-- twee, you might even say-- and Higher Than the Stars, an EP of four new songs and one excellent remix, drives that point home very clearly...Pains could be the most promising indie pop group around.
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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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. Their new single "Everything With You" is the perfect noisy pop song. Kip and Peggy's vocal harmonies sound gorgeous floating above the ringing guitar wash and OH HEY SOLO! "Everything With You" is the first single from their previously mentioned debut LP and will be out on the mighty Slumberland Records (US) and Fortuna POP (UK) in the fall. BUT! You can go hear it right now streaming on the Pobpah MySpace and bask in it's life-affirming fantasticness!
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."
NME - Live Review
Swelling, surging dream-gaze jubilance, that never loses itself in the walls-of-sound. There's a sharp, crystal melody to all their tracks that leave the songs swirling round your head like giddy school girl on her way home from being asked out by her dream boy after math class.
The Yellow Stereo- "Everything With You"
The single just screams for continuous replay, as the catchy boy/girl harmonies wonderfully gel with the jangly, distorted guitars that echoes early My Bloody Valentine and Black Tambourine. There’s also this guitar solo near the end of the song that completely rocked my face off, considering i’ve never heard anything of the ilk since possibly the 90s (no joke, no one does solos like this anymore).
Pop Tarts Suck Toasted
The record is one of those records that takes absolutely no time to fall in love with. From the opening notes of the lead track "Contender" you know you are listening to something powerful, catchy, and brilliant. It's not so much that they just write great pop songs, it's that they feel like they are opening their veins and bleeding on the paper each time they write lyrics and it all comes through with an eerily sunny sound...this band is the real deal
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.
Losing Today "Everything With You"
"‘everything with you’ is your pure unadulterated fix of dogs bollocks bright eyed and cute with it radiant pop the kind that makes you tingle from the inside out, lovingly sugar dipped in sheens of pulse racing effervescence and to these ears sounding not so dissimilar to the kind of stuff mined for your discerning delight by the likes of imprints such as Bus Stop, Summershine and HOL / MBV era Creation while blissfully gliding about your senses like some sun soaked honey combed slice of heart string tweaking bliss pop happily being crafted by a three way collaboration between the Pastels, Velvet Crush and early career Teenage Fanclub. Does it for us...buy on sight."
Contact Music - "Come Saturday" 9/10
‘Come Saturday’ just might be the fizziest, most incessant three minutes of sprightly pop these ears have been exposed to all year. Combining the glorious, pastel-shaded fuzz of a pre-Creation My Bloody Valentine with the danceable quirkiness of The Shins, ‘Come Saturday’ is one of those songs that demands your attention and then won’t go away for months, not that you’d particularly want it to, of course…
The Guardian
"Possibly the lushest piece of noise-pop to come out of the Big Apple in 2008, if not the US."
Indie-Mp3
I think it's safe to say that even if POBPAH split tomorrow, people would still be talking about them and listening to their records for years to come. They're not an ordinary band, they're something special, something exciting, something to celebrate. They're the band that, in my opinion, typify everything that's great about indiepop at the moment.
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