The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Days Of Abandon flac album

Though Days of Abandon is a title that seems to fit every Pains record perfectly (it takes inspiration from the Elena Ferrante novel of a similar name), their third LP, out this week through Yebo, earns the descriptor with brilliant, heartbreaking grace. The cover, painted by Lee Jinju is a pagan masterpiece: two dancers in a state of undress, playing the songs of youth, and crying away tears of lost love while the archetypes of a world begging to be painted in black and white lie disregarded around the scene. Days of Abandon is out tomorrow through Yebo.

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart are an American indie pop band from New York City, formed in 2007. The band currently centers around founding member and principal songwriter Kip Berman (vocals, guitar). Live he is joined by Christoph Hochheim (guitar), Jen Goma (keyboards, vocals), Jacob Sloan (bass), and Anton Hochheim (drums). Former members and contributors include Peggy Wang (keyboards, vocals), Connor Hanwick, Kurt Feldman and Alex Naidus.

Days of Abandon’, the Pains’ third full-length album, widens that division. Taking in everything from g balladry (‘Art Smock’) to wave-over-wave climaxes of crystalline dream-pop guitar (‘Beautiful You’), with the odd Smithsy bassline (‘Kelly’) and gentle eruption of warm brass (‘The Asp at My Chest’), it’s a veritable banquet of indie-pop tropes. The uniting factors are Berman’s undeniably savvy songwriting and an unabashed, unrestrained lushness that’ll be either cloying or delicious, depending on your palate. More than ever, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart are the Marmite of indie-pop – only much, much sweeter.

Kip Berman, leader of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, almost called his new album Welcome to the Jangle. He’s aware of his reputation. He’s sort of indie pop’s Boy Who Lived, the guy who five years ago somehow brought 2003 back as though verbose band names and uncompromising innocence had never gone out of style. Even now that every other rock band’s busy smoothing out their R&B licks, Berman’s chirping I just wanna be yours! along a big rock candy melody. You cannot break this dude. Pains stay consistent without treading old ground. Anyone who loved the self-titled debut and 2011’s Belong should love this one, too, though each earn their love in slightly different ways. Abandon lets Berman’s skillful songcraft bloom under a new quality of light. Listen to the way The Asp at My Chest closes out the whole affair with a waft of brass, and you’ll hear a new kind of dusk glowing on Pains.

Indie pop fans, rejoice - a new Pains of Being Pure at Heart album is here. Almost three years exactly since the release of 2011's "Belong" the Brooklyn-based indie pop troupe will release its third full length album, "Days of Abandon," May 13 via Yebo Music. The ten tracks on "Days of Abandon" showcase a mastery of decades worth of pop music, from 60s girl groups to late-80s indie pop, tied together with magnificently hi-fi production that lends the gloss on every note a little extra shimmer.

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Days of Abandon, like everything before it in the Pains catalogue, will win precisely zero prizes for originality, but there’s a vivaciousness permeating every aspect of the record that breathes so much new life into its well-worn touchpoints. What makes Days of Abandon less warm and immediate than the Pains’ previous peaks is that even as Berman has broadened his palette and expanded his range of possibilities, his musical vocabulary seems more borrowed and derivative than before.