The Pains of Being Pure at Heart have announced a new B-sides compilation, Perfect Right Now: A Slumberland Collection 2008-2010. It’s set to arrive on February 7. The album’s ten tracks are taken from 7″s that accompanied the band’s 2009 self-titled debut album, the Higher Than the Stars EP, and split singles. It ends with ‘Say No To Love’, which “points the way forward to the band’s next chapter,” according to a press release. Check out the tracklist below.
“Many of these songs, like those that comprised our debut record, were written in that *now* – making up in wild pop fantasy what we couldn’t quite yet achieve through musical ability,” the band’s Kip Berman said in a statement. “But even if that *now* is now an irrevocable *then,* I still believe that there is nothing better than making music with your friends and dreaming, as our Myspace page once proclaimed, of ‘being the biggest band in the world—to about 18 people.’”
Earlier this year, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart announced a string of reunion shows celebrating the anniversary of their first album. After the band broke up in 2019, Berman continued to release music as the Natvral. Check out our Artist Spotlight interview with the Natvrual.
Perfect Right Now: A Slumberland Collection 2008-2010 Cover Artwork:
Perfect Right Now: A Slumberland Collection 2008-2010 Tracklist:
1. Kurt Cobain‘s Cardigan
2. Come Saturday
3. Ramona
4. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
5. Side Ponytail
6. Higher Than the Stars
7. 103
8. Falling Over
9. Twins
10. Say No to Love