Videos: Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Longwave

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[Neither of these is particularly hot-off-the-presses, but I love both songs and feel like sharing;]

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart’s self-titled debut remains in heavy rotation at Buzz Bands HQ, and the New York quartet”  will be back in Los Angeles for a show at the Echo on July 20, two days after they play the Pitchfork Fest in Chicago. This tune, “Young Adult Friction,” is one of the album’s highlights.

||| Download: “Young Adult Friction”

Maybe it was the timing of the release (last November), but I get the feeling Longwave’s “Secrets Are Sinister,” the Brooklyn quartet’s first album in three years, didn’t get the juice it deserved. It’s a big shoegazey record that’s liable to have you playing chord progressions on your steering wheel (but watch your freeway speed) … oh, you mean nobody does that but me? This gorgeously atmospheric track, “The Devil & the Liar,” rewards the patient.