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The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
Also Playing: The Depreciation Guild and Cymbals Eat Guitars
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Annie Powers
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Annie Powers
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Annie Powers
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Wed Sep 9
8:30 pm
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, The Depreciation Guild, and Cymbals Eat Guitars at Orpheum Stage Door
Brooklyn's The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart offer a charming, if packaged, blend of Manchester pop and shoegaze revivalism that will likely underwhelm anybody still holding out for a Smiths reunion. That said, the dreamy hooks, breathy vocals, and quirky rhythms of the Pains' self-titled debut actually capture the era with reasonable accuracy and spirited catchiness. The same holds true for the electro dream-pop of openers The Depreciation Guild (fronted by Pains' drummer, Kurt Feldman), whose In Her Gentle Jaws also tries to put up a mirror to some clear British favorites, The Cocteau Twins. Staten Island's Cymbals Eat Guitars brings a more refreshing, fractured take on spacey pop-rock to the bill. On this year's Why There Are Mountains, the adventurous playing of vocalist-guitarist Joe Ferocious twitches, drones, and buzzes behind his sugary vocal lines.
Orpheum Stage Door 216 State St., Madison, WI
Brooklyn's The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart offer a charming, if packaged, blend of Manchester pop and shoegaze revivalism that will likely underwhelm anybody still holding out for a Smiths reunion. That said, the dreamy hooks, breathy vocals, and quirky rhythms of the Pains' self-titled debut actually capture the era with reasonable accuracy and spirited catchiness. The same holds true for the electro dream-pop of openers The Depreciation Guild (fronted by Pains' drummer, Kurt Feldman), whose In Her Gentle Jaws also tries to put up a mirror to some clear British favorites, The Cocteau Twins. Staten Island's Cymbals Eat Guitars brings a more refreshing, fractured take on spacey pop-rock to the bill. On this year's Why There Are Mountains, the adventurous playing of vocalist-guitarist Joe Ferocious twitches, drones, and buzzes behind his sugary vocal lines.
Updated 10/04/2011
