
Photos of The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart at King’s College, London on 3rd March 2011. Taken by Tina Sheikh – www.magic-photography.co.uk
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On immediate listen, first track and new single Belong sounds nothing like the POBPAH. The unsuspecting listener may think they’ve accidently put on Cherub Rock by the Smashing Pumpkins, minus the nasal squealing of Billy Corgan. Yet this is the new POBPAH album, and the heavier direction works surprisingly well, even with the soft lead vocals of Berman. Alas it doesn’t continue fully throughout the rest of the album, with the more typical sounds creeping back. But this is by no means a bad thing.
Heaven’s Gonna Happen Now is full bodied sigh-pop, full of optimism, and images of the...