The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart are a US indie pop band from New York, formed in 2007. The group is centred on Kip Berman, and its line-up also includes Peggy Wang on keyboards, Alex Naidus on bass, and Christoph Hochheim on guitar.
Style and background
The band is associated with indie pop, c86, shoegaze, dream pop and twee. It emerges from the New York indie scene and is identified as a New York, United States act.
Members and related acts
Former members include Anton on drums; Hochheim, who has also been involved with The Depreciation Guild and Ablebody; Jacob Sloan on bass, who is linked with Dream Diary; Jessica Weiss on vocals, who is associated with Fear of Men; Jen Goma on vocals, who is associated with A Sunny Day in Glasgow and Roman a Clef; and Kurt Feldman. Feldman works as an engineer and producer at Winter Station Studios and leads the synthpop group Ice Choir and the sophisti-pop group Roman a Clef, which also includes Jen Goma.
Activity
The band is active from 2007 to the present. In 2019, the group announces that it is breaking up. After that, Kip Berman releases solo material under the name The Natvral. The band later resumes live performance with a lineup of Berman, Wang, Naidus and Hochheim.
Release association
The band is associated with Pastel Music.
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