Pains Of Being Pure At Heart have admitted a debt to Scotland’s ever fertile indie scene.
It’s funny, really. The cute, naive genre known as indie pop has its roots in the masculine culture of Scotland. From groups such as Orange Juice and The Pastels to Belle & Sebastian the genre has a strong lineage in the country.
Given a new lease of life via the Brooklyn scene, indie pop is the sound of the moment. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart have completed their second album ‘Belong’ and admitted that their sound is a distillation of several influences.
“We wanted it to sound like who we are and not what our record collections are,” singer Kip Berman says. “In a lot of ways, our first record was very much through the lens of our lifelong interest in independent music, like Scotland and also American indie-pop in the ’90s.”
Speaking to Spinner, the singer also outlined the band’s feeling about their own naïveté. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart match a helpless romanticism with something which is a little more street smart.
Returning with their second album The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart are eager to escape some of the traits of the indie pop scene. “It’s really important that our music doesn’t exist solely on this purely sensational, 15-year-old level,” the singer said.
“Those feelings are legitimate, and I still feel the 15-year-old way, but it’s also good to feel the young-adult way, where you have experiences and you can base your understanding of the world on them” he said.
“Otherwise, it’s just forced naïveté, which is antithetical to the music we enjoy. We’re an indie-pop band, sure, but we don’t celebrate this unnatural sense of wanting to be 12-years-old forever.”
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart’s new single ‘Heart In Your Heartbreak’ is out now. Listen to it below…
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – Heart In Your Heartbreak by forcefieldpr
