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The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart announce new album

By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 17 May 2017

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart have announced that they will release their new album, ‘The Echo Of Pleasure’, on 14 Jul, via their own Painbow label.

“The logistics of [making this album] were so different [to our debut]”, says band leader Kip Berman. “When I recorded the record, my wife was six months pregnant. We only had a limited amount of time. There was an absolute uncertainty hanging over our heads, but it was also a kind of escape from worry for that time”.

Those worries included “what’s going to happen when I have a kid? Am I going to be able to go on tour? Is this the last record I’m going to get to make?” he explains. “It’s not a bad thing to be worried when you’re expecting this huge transition of life. If you didn’t feel scared, you’re probably not feeling the right emotion. I tried to make the best record I could, knowing it might be the last time”.

“‘The Echo Of Pleasure’ could be the near-symmetry of love”, he adds, of the album’s title. “It’s the reflection back and forth, modulating over time, of two people who are together. It’s not a mirror – but a perpetual answering and asking. When one person is absent, that echo ceases or, as the title track laments, ‘fades into these silent days’. In that sense, remembering is a kind of echo, each instance slightly less vivid than the one before”.

Listen to first single ‘Anymore’ here:

The band will also be on tour in the UK this month and next. Here are the dates:

24 May: Bristol, Thekla
25 May: Manchester, Night & Day Café
27 May: Newcastle Upon Tyne, Think Tank
28 May: Glasgow, Stereo
29 May: Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
30 May: London, Oslo
1 Jun: Leicester, The Cookie
2 Jun: Wolverhampton, Newhampton Arts Centre
3 Jun: Oxford, The Cellar