The Pains of Being Pure at Heart “Kelly”

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart shares "Kelly" video

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart share the video for their latest single “Kelly” today, it was shot by the band’s friend and longtime collaborator, Art Boonparn. The band is currently on tour and will join back up with The New Pornographers for another run of dates in Nov. The band also recently released a deluxe edition of their 2014 LP Days of Abandon, with 5 bonus tracks.  You can listen to one of these bonus tracks, “Summer of Dreams” below.

On the Fall tour, the band will also sell a limited edition vinyl 10″ called Abandonment Issue featuring the 5 bonus tracks from the digital deluxe version of the album.

The album was recorded at new Greenpoint studio House Under Magic which is owned by longtime Pains cohort Danny Taylor (ZaZa). Produced by Andy Savours (My Bloody Valentine, Patrick Wolf, Cloud Boat) and mixed by Charlie Hugall at  London’s Engine Room (Swim Deep, Florence And the Machine), The new record is the band’s most musically sophisticated to date, channeling the gilded pop optimism of bands like Aztec Camera, The House of Love and The Lightning Seeds, while maintaining The Pains’ penchant for earworm melodies and emotional candor.

“This album was a chance to push beyond Belong‘s universal style of songwriting into something that was far more personal and true to my ideals,” says Kip Berman. “I wanted the music to be joyful, lush and full of possibility, even if the subjects were often more painful to confront.”

 

The Pains of Being Pure At Heart

Days of Abandon – Deluxe Edition 

(Yebo Music)

Street Date: Sept. 23, 2014

Track List:

1. Art Smock
2. Simple and Sure
3. Kelly
4. Beautiful You
5. Coral and Gold
6. Eurydice
7. Masokissed
8. Until The Sun Explodes
9. Life After Life
10. The Asp at My Chest

Bonus Tracks:

11. Impossible
12. Summer of Dreams
13. The Real World
14. Poison Touch
15. Kelly (Winter Station Demo)

   

TOUR DATES:

10/24 – Colorado Springs, CO – The Black Sheep
10/26 – Norman, OK – Opolis
10/28 – Houston, TX – Fitzgeralds Upstairs
10/30 – Mexico City, MX – Foro Indie Rocks
11/01 – Little Rock, AR – Stickyz Rock’n’Roll Chicken Shack
11/02 – Oxford, MS – Proud Larry’s
11/04 – Nashville, TN – Cannery Ballroom *
11/05 – Asheville, NC – Orange Peel *
11/06 – Atlanta, GA – Buckhead Theatre *
11/07 – New Orleans, LA – Civic Theatre *
11/08 – Austin, TX – Fun Fun Fun Nites *
11/10 – St. Louis, MO – The Pageant *
11/11 – Omaha, NE – Slowdown *
11/12 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue*
11/13 – Milwaukee, WI – Pabst Theater *
11/14 – Chicago, IL – Riviera Theatre *
11/15 – Cleveland, OH – House of Blues *
11/17 – New York, NY – Hammerstein Ballroom *
11/18 – Hamden CT – The Space
11/19 – Boston, MA – House of Blues *
11/20 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer *
11/21 -22 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club *
11/23 – Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle *

 

* = w/ The New Pornographers

 

 

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