If you like shoegaze-y kind of indiepop –and it seems that some of you do– you might want to have a listen to The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, from New York City, who would have been on Slumberland had it been 1992 still. Now it’s 2007 though, so they’re on Cloudberry, as one does these days, if one makes good music.

Because the band “don’t feel weird about people getting their music for free at all” here’s an mp3 of This Love is Fucking Right!, one of these rare cases when the f-word fits just right. A couple of other mp3s are available through the band’s website. It might also be worth noting that they’ll hop over to this Island here in February.

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – This Love is Fucking Right!

And while we’re at it, fellow Americans Thee Yankee Dollar –which might be what you get if you lock a Spectorian girl group singer into her bedroom– have uploaded a couple of new songs to their website. They might not be as brilliant as The Day At Sandy Lake, but definitely worth a listen anyway; Ask Me Now is my favourite.