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Following up the band’s ace "Everything With You" single and whirlwind Swedish tour, we are delighted to bring you their self-titled debut album. "The Pains of Being Pure At Heart" is an instant classic, packed with brilliantly-executed pop gems that blend the rush of youthful enthusiasm with crafty arrangements, well-honed tunes and buckets of guitar racket. Drawing on the sparkling legacy of the best of 80s and 90s pop, POBPAH update the timeless noisy pop template with a thoroughly modern viewpoint and a very distinctive, playful personality. There is something instantly identifiable about a Pains tune, and it is the essential “rightness” of their records that has captured the attention of pop fans around the world and raised anticipation levels for this album to a near-fever pitch.

"The Pains of Being Pure At Heart" delivers on this promise with perfect assurance. Smashing tunes like “Come Saturday” and “Young Adult Friction” are classic three minute masterpieces that simply beg the be played on repeat. “Stay Alive” and “Gentle Sons” show the band can slow it down and still rock it, and “Hey Paul” is as brash a slice of noise-blast guitar pop as you’ll hear all year. Weighing in at a flawlessly-conceived ten songs, this is all the album that Pains fans had hoped for. Handily transcending easy pigeonholes like “indie pop” and “indie rock,” it is just a great album that shows a smart young band fulfilling their potential and crafting a very convincing statement of purpose.

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Originally released February 3, 2009. Now reissued on limited splatter vinyl.

Tracklist

Contender 2:36
Come Saturday 3:30
Young Adult Friction 4:03
This Love Is Fucking Right! 3:00
The Tenure Itch 3:41
Stay Alive 4:52
Everything With You 2:57
A Teenager In Love 3:20
Hey Paul 2:00
Gentle Sons 4:30