The Pains Of Being Pure At Coronary heart reunite for 2025 European tour
The Pains of Being Pure at Coronary heart have introduced a collection of comeback reveals for subsequent yr, their first since splitting up 5 years in the past.
The band formally introduced that they’d damaged up in November 2019, with frontman Kip Berman writing on Instagram that his life had “modified radically” because the band first fashioned in 2007 and that he had determined to give attention to different tasks.
The group additionally included singer and keyboardist Peggy Wang, bassist Alex Naidus and drummer Kurt Feldman and so they launched their self-titled debut in 2009 along with three additional full-length albums, 2011’s ‘Belong’, 2014’s ‘Days of Abandon’ and 2017’s, ‘The Echo of Pleasure.’
Now, they’ve introduced that they are going to be getting again collectively for a collection of reveals to have fun the fifteenth anniversary of that debut album. The reveals will happen in Spain and Portugal in February and March 2025, with tickets occurring sale at 11am native time on Tuesday (August 20). You may get yours here.
“We bought some information!” wrote the band on Instagram on Friday (August 16). “To have fun the 15 yr anniversary of our debut album, we’ll be touring Spain + Portugal in February/March 2025. Yeah, we all know it’ll truly be 16 years by then, however… The Pains of Being Unhealthy at Math.”
The submit confirms that Berman, Wang and Feldman can be joined by Christoph Hochheim on guitar, with Eddy Marshall filling in on bass rather than Alex Naidus, who misses the reveals for “(excellent) private issues”.
The band will play the debut album in full on the reveals, in addition to “a couple of different songs from that period too”.
“I don’t know if we’ll be doing extra (or much less) of this sooner or later,” the submit continues. “However for proper now, we’re all excited to get this opportunity to be collectively and play these songs that, fairly actually, modified our lives.”
The Pains of Being Pure at Coronary heart will play:
FEBRUARY 2025
19 – Porto, Mouco
20 – A Coruna, Garufa Membership
21 – Oviedo, Almacenes
22 – Tarragona, Sala Zero
23 – Madrid, Lula Membership
24 – Sevilla, Sala X
26 – Murcia, Sala R.E.M.
27 – Valencia, 16 Toneladas
28 – Barcelona, Razzmatazz 2
MARCH
1 – Zaragoza, Las Armas
2 – San Sebastian, Dabadaba
Writing in regards to the band’s debut album in a 4 star evaluation, NME mentioned: “This time final yr it was as if somebody had been leaving copies of ‘Graceland’ in each thrift-store in Brooklyn. Now it looks as if somebody has come throughout a job lot of NME’s legendary ‘C86’ tape of fey indie bands, as a result of they’re all at it – Vivian Ladies, Crystal Stilts and now this lot.
“Every thing from the oh-so-twee title to singer Kip Berman’s affected English accent screams flawed, but it surely sounds so proper; a little bit of Mary Chain right here, a withering Moz-esque flip of phrase there and a variety of early, jangly My Bloody Valentine in all places else. However it’s way more than the sum of its elements and too effortlessly effervescent to be studied. Pure indie-pop to carry near your coronary heart.”