- Record Label: Slumberland
- Release Date: Sep 22, 2009
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Higher Than The Stars is a fitting way to end 2009 for one of the most exciting bands to emerge this year, and more importantly, hints that The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart may be capable of even greater things in 2010.
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It helps to show Pains not as period fetishists, but instead a group of indie-pop aesthetes who seem to be able to operate comfortably within several different subdivisions of the genre.
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These four new songs are impeccably recorded, and frontman Kip Berman's voice sounds so intimate and close it's as if he's whispering a secret into your ear.
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Under The RadarThe title track is a sweet, decidely New Romantic slice of synth-pop, with a beautiful bridge that will have crowds shouting "in the back of my mother's car." [Fall 2009, p.73]