The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

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It's not hard to get your head around the appeal of THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART. Belong is their second album and it's classic indie pop: jangly guitars, sun-soaked melodies, themes of heartbreak, redemption and so on. It's like they sat down and wrote an album specifically for the Australian summer. Produced by genii Alan Moulder (My Bloody Valentine, Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and Flood (PJ Harvey, Smashing Pumpkins, Depeche Mode), Belong is an album that both revels in and transcends its palpable Nineties influences. Also, they have a song called ‘Anne with an E', which is appealing if you are an Anne of Green Gables fan.

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