Part 2, YEAH!
Let’s go back awhile – you formed for your keyboardist’s birthday party, right? Do you intend to play at all forthcoming band birthday celebrations?
Kip: Well, we have, for the most part. I remember Alex’s birthday party in our first year, and we threw this big house party at the place I was [...]
Here’s an interview that was supposed to be published but wasn’t. Whee!
New York’s The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart are distinct by their ability to totally transcend their influences. The husky, dreamy pop fury of their self-titled debut calls to mind any number of fuzzy twee and poppy shoegaze stalwarts as you’d care to [...]
The Grave Architects – Highway Be True/Love TBC (Fortuna Pop!)
Because sometimes pizzazz is enough to get a band through a song, The Grave Architects succeed in not making too much of their own genius. Shrug off your ample charms and listeners will flock, tripping over themselves to point them out again. With Highway Be True they [...]
This week, PM catches up with Kip from The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart. See what we thought of their debut record here (it’s aces, anyhow), then see what Kip & co. have been up to…
In a word, how’s your week?
Fun!
What did you get up to last night and how was it?
Peggy and I [...]
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – S/T (Fortuna POP!)
So let’s summarise. Your band sounds like a million other bands, and not just because of the feel if it like so many cack-hand writers care to approximate, but because actual, practical, musical reasons. Your boy-girl vocals are octave spaced and reasonably low in the [...]
Various Artists – Be True To Your School (A Fortuna POP! Compilation)
Fifteen years is a very long time to not make money doing something, so anyone who braves such an undertaking should probably be congratulated or committed (in the mental sense, not stick-to-itiveness). The legacy of Fortuna POP! records is far funnier than most, and [...]
The Lucksmiths – First Frost (Fortuna POP!)
Melbourne’s The Lucksmiths are a band to whom, by now, the phrase ‘return to form’ means nothing at all. If your ‘form’, such as it is, means consistently churning out breezy indie-pop intricacies and curios over the course of eleven LPs with a gradually rising bar of quality, then [...]
The Lucksmiths – Up With The Sun/A Sobering Thought (Just When One Was Needed) (Fortuna Pop!)
Decently, Australia’s The Lucksmiths have elected to make this taster of their forthcoming First Frost LP (their eleventh) a free download. This is a very good deal. Neither of these songs challenges what you might expect to hear from The [...]
Hayman, Watkins, Trout & Lee – Fine Young Cannibals (Fortuna Pop!)
For some time, after just assuming Hayman, Watkins, Trout & Lee weren’t particularly going to release anything special, PM had ignored them. On the strength of this single, it seems that PM was entirely wrong, because Fine Young Cannibals is a gorgeous, warm song. A [...]
