The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

Blissful, heartfelt lyrics meet fuzzy guitars and anthemic choruses in this New York quartet's collegiate, melancholic indie-pop. On its eponymous 2009 debut full-length, the Brooklyn group summoned cloudy late-'80s cool in the form of jangly alt-rock, and its second LP, Belong, crawls forward toward a crisp '90s aesthetic. Here, hear them play from their upcoming third LP, Days of Abandon, at the Troubadour, with Fear of Men and Ablebody opening the night.