The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Get Huge at Mohawk

concert poster courtesy of Mohawk

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Depreciation Guild, Cymbals Eat Guitars
Friday, September 25
The Mohawk (912 Red River)
$10 advance, $12 at door, doors at 9
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The Mohawk offers up a hell of a future-look tonight, as even if the bands on this docket aren't familiar to you yet, give it time: they will be. With a trifold bill featuring not one, but two bands whose debut albums garnered the much sought-after Best New Music designation from the loved or loathed pillar of tastemaking, Pitchfork Media, this is one of those lovely opportunities to go to a show and later brag about it to all the fools who were a step behind. For example, if you saw MGMT at Fun Fun Fun Fest two years ago, when there were about one hundred people in the daytime audience. Surely, a bunch of those people have had ample opportunity for smugness since then, yes? Well, this time, it's The Pains of Being Pure at Heart and Cymbals Eat Guitars with the sky-high post-Vivian Girls raw-sound superpotential, with the promising 8-bit plus band The Depreciation Guild as an added bonus.

A little background: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart are a New York-based quartet with appropriately disinterested vocals and an effortless pop sensibility, all of it covered in a filmy layer of lo-fi love. Their debut, a self-titled affair, is an economical thirty-five minutes of eighties-inspired charm. Cymbals Eat Guitars, on the other hand, create calamitous and ambitious rock feats that, if you listen closely enough, evoke a little bit of Built to Spill in their grandiosity. Of course, though, they're also from New York, as are Depreciation Guild, who fuse video game-ish sounds with a straight-up rock overlay. All that together in one night and, who knows, maybe this'll be a show that in a year or two you'll be able to cite as proof of your indie, in-the-know cred. 'Cuz everyone needs that.