Overview
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart is usually filed under Shoegaze, Indie Pop, Dream Pop, Indie Rock—use the tags in the header to dig into similar records in your library. The discography section lists 5 releases spanning 2011–2025, each linking to full artwork, metadata, and track lists. The biography section below has the full write-up.
Latest Release
View Album DetailsPerfect Right Now: A Slumberland Collection 2008-2010
album • 2025 • 10 Tracks
Biography
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart is an indie pop band which formed in 2007 in New York City, New York, USA. The band consists of Kip Berman (vocals, guitar), Peggy Wang (keyboards), Alex Naidus (bass), and Christoph Hochheim (guitar).
Past members included Anton (drums) Hochheim (formerly of The Depreciation Guild, currently of Ablebody), Jacob Sloan (bass) (Dream Diary), Jessica Weiss (vocals) (Fear of Men), Jen Goma (vocals) (A Sunny Day in Glasgow/Roman a Clef), and Kurt Feldman.
Feldman currently works as an engineer and producer at Winter Station Studios and leads the synthpop group Ice Choir and the sophisti-pop group Roman a Clef, which also features fellow former Pains member Jen Goma.
On November 4, [yearended]2019[/yearended] they announced they were breaking up. Afterwards, Kip Berman began releasing solo material under the name The Natvral.
In 2025 the band started playing live shows again with the lineup of Kip Berman, Peggy Wang, Alex Naidus, and Christoph Hochheim .
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Common questions
- What genre is The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart?
- The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart is summarized on Risocast with tags including Shoegaze, Indie Pop, Dream Pop, Indie Rock, Noise Pop, Pop. Tags combine catalog metadata and community listening context.
- Where should I start with The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart's music?
- Browse releases such as Perfect Right Now: A Slumberland Collection 2008-2010, Full Moon Fever, The Echo of Pleasure, Days of Abandon (Deluxe Version) from the discography section, then open a track page from any album.
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