The Pains of Being Pure At Heart drop its sophomore effort, Belong, on Berkeley’s Slumberland Records today. If you caught them at the Cats Cradle last year then you remember the night as being a fairly fuzzed-out ordeal. The New York City-based band returns to the Cradle this coming Saturday.
We have a pair of tickets for the first person to tell us in the comments where the band got its name and give us a good reason why you want to go to the show, I mean, hey, we know how to do a Google search, too. We won’t ship tickets so you should probably live close or plan to be in the area if you respond (so, there!).
Recorded with the production and mixing team of Flood (Depeche Mode, U2) and Alan Moulder (Smashing Pumpkins, Jesus and Mary Chain, Ride), from what we can tell so far, Belong promises a bit more raw sound–a little more like catching the band live than their 2009 self-titled debut.
Download lead single Heart in Your Heartbreak.
