11/19/2024
Posted • Today we are *super* excited to announce “Perfect Right Now: A Slumberland Collection 2008-2010” from our old friends The Pains of Being Pure At Heart!
The ten tracks here compile the much-loved (and LONG out of print!) b-sides from the 7”s that accompanied their genre-defining debut, the follow-up “Higher Than The Stars” EP, a couple of scarce tunes from split singles, and finally “Say No To Love,” a spectacular song that points the way forward to the band’s next chapter. There are some proper lost classics here, songs like “Kurt Cobain’s Cardigan” and “The Pains of Being Pure at Heart” that still pack the dancefloors at indie discos from Göteborg to Glasgow and we couldn’t be more excited to make them available again.
We’ll let Kip from the band have the last word: “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. 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.’”
“Perfect Right Now” is out Feb 7th on CD and as a great-looking LP on milky clear vinyl with blue and yellow splatter. Our friends at Glasgow’s Monorail Music have an exclusive mint green vinyl edition that’s going fast!
