The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Announce New Single, European Tour

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart new 7″ single on Slumberland featuring covers of two of their favorite bands ever, The Magnetic Fields and East River Pipe.

The single marks the first new recordings from the band since their 2011 album, Belong, and will be available this October. The single was recorded in June at Rare Book Room, and features “Jeremy” by The Magnetic Fields as the A-side with “My Life is Wrong” by East River Pipe on the flip. “Jeremy” is streaming now at the Pains fan tumblr http://fyeahthepainsofbeing.tumblr.com/

Peggy Wang of Pains explains her personal connection to The Magnetic Fields:

“The Magnetic Fields, for me, were part of an immature phase. I know that has negative connotations, but in hindsight, I don’t think I could have fallen harder for any other band at any other time in my life. I had the kind of naive scrawl-their-name-on-my-notebook fixation that any young teenybopper would have had, except back then, I didn’t have the luxury of the internet to find out much about my favorite band, and I didn’t live in a big city where I might hope to catch a glimpse of my teen idols as they rolled through town. There wasn’t even a fan club for me to join. The Magnetic Fields were a band without context.”

Now that I’m older, I can look back at the time and see how the Magnetic Fields were a band that could exist outside of a context and still make me fall in love with them. I didn’t need to know if they were anyone else’s favorite band, I didn’t need to know what they looked like or where they were from or any frivolous details a hypothetical Tigerbeat interview might have divulged to me.

The Magnetic Fields might have been the last band I ever unconditionally loved without ever stopping to try to understand why – just the kind of love story I hoped to one day live through.”

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Oct 15   Ruby Lounge   Manchester, United Kingdom
Oct 16   Dingwalls   London, United Kingdom
Oct 18   Stereolux   Nantes, France
Oct 19   Le Trabendo   Paris, France
Oct 20   LA CHAPELLE DES TRINITAIRES   Metz, France
Oct 21   L’Épicerie Moderne   Lyon, France
Oct 23   Astoria City   Turin, Italy
Oct 24   Circolo degli Artisti   Rome, Italy
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