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Jul 21, 2011The slick production values and mighty arena-filling guitar and drum sounds will jolt fans of the New York City band's charming lo-fi debut.
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Mar 30, 2011The album's lows remain limp and strangely clinical, making its true promise all the more disappointing.
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Mar 29, 2011The Pains of Being Pure at Heart have retained most of what we loved about them while also finding new ways to dazzle us, to make us swoon.
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Mar 25, 2011The Pains of Being Pure at Heart opt to adapt, drafting in producer Flood and mixer Alan Moulder to polish and shine their second album.
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Under The RadarJun 8, 2011You get a sense that The Pains Of Being Pure At heart are only kind of serious and it;'s this half-seriousness that makes the band's brand of wounded-bastard-twee-pop so very irresistible. [May 2011, p.86]
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Q MagazineMay 18, 2011Only the title track, with its surge of guitar fuzz, really matches the idea with the execution. [May 2011, p.120]
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