The Pains of Being Pure at Heart is an indie pop band which formed in 2007 in New York City, New York, USA. The band consists of Kip Berman (vocals, guitar), Peggy Wang (keyboards), Alex Naidus (bass), and Christoph Hochheim (guitar).
Past members included Anton (drums) Hochheim (formerly of The Depreciation Guild, currently of Ablebody), Jacob Sloan (bass) (Dream Diary), Jessica Weiss (vocals) (Fear of Men), Jen Goma (vocals) (A Sunny Day in Glasgow/Roman a Clef), and Kurt Feldman.
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The Pains of Being Pure at Heart is an indie pop band which formed in 2007 in New York City, New York, USA. The band consists of Kip Berman (vocals, guitar), Peggy Wang (keyboards), Alex Naidus (bass), and Christoph Hochheim (guitar).
Past members included Anton (drums) Hochheim (formerly of The Depreciation Guild, currently of Ablebody), Jacob Sloan (bass) (Dream Diary), Jessica Weiss (vocals) (Fear of Men), Jen Goma (vocals) (A Sunny Day in Glasgow/Roman a Clef), and Kurt Feldman.
Feldman currently works as an engineer and producer at Winter Station Studios and leads the synthpop group Ice Choir and the sophisti-pop group Roman a Clef, which also features fellow former Pains member Jen Goma.
On November 4, [yearended]2019[/yearended] they announced they were breaking up. Afterwards, Kip Berman began releasing solo material under the name The Natvral.
In 2025 the band started playing live shows again with the lineup of Kip Berman, Peggy Wang, Alex Naidus, and Christoph Hochheim
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