The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

The story

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart are an American indie pop band from New York City. The band was formed by Kip Berman, Peggy Wang, Alex Naidus (bass), and Kurt Feldman (drums) in 2007. Their current lineup includes all original members, along with longtime touring guitarist Christoph Hochheim and Brian Alvarez, who has served as the band's touring drummer in place of Feldman, who remains involved with the band offstage after the band's Spain and Portugal tour in 2025.

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Stories

Beyond the records: books, other lives and interviews, from the band and its members.

Watch

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Records

• Perfect Right Now: A Slumberland Collection 2008-2010 · 2025 · compilation
• Higher Than the Stars Remixes · 2009 · EP · remix

Records from MusicBrainz, completed with the release lists of Deezer and Apple. Sleeves from the Cover Art Archive and the same lists.

Members

• 2007 on
  Kip Berman
• Kurt Feldman
• Alex Naidus
• Christoph Hochheim
• Jen Goma
• Peggy Wang

Members past and present, each with their own page. From MusicBrainz and Discogs.

Also plays on

Records by other artists with The Pains of Being Pure at Heart in the credits, from the song and record credits of MusicBrainz and Discogs. Their own bands are above.

Playlists with The Pains of Being Pure at Heart in them: Sonic Architects selections and Pause & Record tapes from linr listeners, Deezer’s editors and curators, radio shows on Mixcloud and ListenBrainz playlists. Every tile opens on linr first, with the original one link away.

If you like The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

• The Radio Dept.3 sources agree
• Camera Obscura3 sources agree
• Deerhunter3 sources agree
• Wild Nothing3 sources agree
• Girls3 sources agree
• Yuck3 sources agree
• Belle and Sebastian2 sources agree
• DIIV2 sources agree
• Asobi Seksu2 sources agree
• Ride2 sources agree
• Alvvays2 sources agree
• The Drums2 sources agree

Where the listeners of ListenBrainz, Last.fm and Deezer agree, with the circle of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart’s own bands. A source that names other people with the same name is left out.