{"id":14581,"date":"2017-09-05T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=14581"},"modified":"2017-09-14T09:25:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T16:25:31","slug":"new-music-revue-the-pains-of-being-pure-at-heart-craft-pop-with-honesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2017\/09\/05\/new-music-revue-the-pains-of-being-pure-at-heart-craft-pop-with-honesty\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>New Music Revue<\/em>: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart craft pop with honesty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/TEOP-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14582 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/TEOP-1-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/TEOP-1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/TEOP-1-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/TEOP-1-70x70.jpeg 70w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/TEOP-1-110x110.jpeg 110w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/TEOP-1-200x200.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/TEOP-1-180x180.jpeg 180w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/TEOP-1.jpeg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Pains of Being Pure at Heart<br \/>\n<i>The Echo of Pleasure<br \/>\n<\/i>(Painbow Records)<br \/>\n3.5\/5<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s because I\u2019m a dad trying to juggle diapers and chores between episodes of <i>The Octonauts<\/i>, but when the promotional material that comes with music I\u2019m reviewing uses terms such as \u201cbig-hearted, idealistic pop songs,\u201d I want to poke holes in my ears and break my fingers to avoid having to complete the review.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, <i>The Echo of Pleasure<\/i> did not drive me to self-mutilation. Yes, there\u2019s enough saccharine sweetness to these nine tracks to give the listener cavities, but these songs are purposefully crafted with honesty and talent, and they avoid being derivative indie pop.<\/p>\n<p>To get an idea of what this sounds like, think Primal Scream, Pixies, or The Cure at their most lovey, happy, romantic moments. Yummy.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to celebrate your love, or if you just wish you had it, this album is for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Echo of Pleasure (Painbow Records) 3.5\/5 Maybe it\u2019s because I\u2019m a dad trying to juggle diapers and chores between episodes of The Octonauts, but when the promotional material that comes with music I\u2019m reviewing uses terms such as \u201cbig-hearted, idealistic pop songs,\u201d I want to poke holes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-september-5-2017"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14583,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14581\/revisions\/14583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}