Indie Pop Prom: The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Sad13, SPORTS, Mercury Girls, Swanning

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THE INDIE POP PROM!

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The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

Do The Pains of Being Pure At Heart belong? After garnering widespread acclaim from the likes of The New York Times, Pitchfork and NME to countless indiepop forums, blogs and even Live Journals for their out-of-nowhere s/t 2009 Slumberland debut, have The Pains made the kind of record that will matter to the kind of people to whom records still matter?

From the opening explosions of electric guitar on “Belong” (“We don’t”) and the sumptuously synthetic dance pop perfection of “The Body” to the prom-in-heaven chorus of “Even in Dreams” and the closing moments of the uncommonly sincere and affecting “Strange” (“…and dreams can still come true”) the answer is an unqualified, resounding (and damn good sounding)

Sad13

It’s very strange (“Or not strange at all! Hi!” says feminism) that most of the music we funnel into little girls’ ears—even music written by former little girls—is about how women are petty, pretty garbage whose only valuable function is to hold perfectly still in men’s boudoirs and wait for intercourse. “I wanted to make songs that were the opposite of ‘Genie in A Bottle’ or ‘The Boy Is Mine,’” Sadie Dupuis says of Slugger, her new solo album under the name Sad13. “Songs that put affirmative consent at the heart of the subject matter and emphasize friendship among women and try to deescalate the toxic jealousy and ownership that are often centered in romantic pop songs.” What!? Songs for women that actually champion women’s autonomy, reflect women’s desires, listen to women when they talk, and let women be funny and normal and cool, like women actually are?

S P O R T S

SPORTS is a 4-5 piece basement rock band, started in 2012 at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. The band's original line-up consisted of Carmen Perry on vocals and guitar, Benji Dossetter on drums, James Karlin on bass, and Catherine Dwyer on guitar. Early in the band's formation, the group demoed some songs at their college radio station, WKCO. This recording would later birth their first album, Sunchokes, in the spring of 2014. After Catherine graduated and the others remained at Kenyon, Jack Washburn entered the band in summer of 2014 in her place on guitar and vocals. SPORTS has explored beyond the Buckeye state, playing with contemporaries including Radiator Hospital, Priests, Porches., and Pinegrove.

The band’s second album titled All of Something was recorded in Philadelphia with celebrated DIY producer and musician Kyle Gilbride (Waxahatchee, Girlpool, Swearin’). Catherine rejoined the band for the sessions, and the now quintet found a fuller sound with all hands on deck. All of Something unfurls like a flag outside a midwestern bedroom window, lifted with the air of uncertainty of those first, confusing steps of adulthood. Perry’s freckled voice, equal parts longing and hopeful, carries through with damning drums and tickling guitar solos. Each song jangles on, sometimes releasing declarative, fighting words and other times as careful as notes left on the fridge.

Mercury Girls

Electrifying, sonic indiepop from this Philly supergroup that includes members of Literature, Pet Milk and Little Big League. Mercury Girls take classic indiepop as a jumping-off point and rev it up with bits of shoegaze, post-punk and 90s alt-pop. Gorgeous tangles of chorused, jangling guitars and Sarah's dreamlike vocals. Marvelously perfect, forward-thinking pop. Post-punk inspirations, marked by a careening rhythm and a huge choruses that will stick in your head for days.

Swanning

Swanning is the musical project of Cynthia Schemmer (guitarist in Radiator Hospital, managing editor of She Shreds Magazine) who released her debut 12" EP Drawing Down the Moon on Salinas Records this year. She is joined by Jeff Bolt (Swearin', Radiator Hospital), Ali Donohue (Fleabite), and Jen Twigg (The Ambulars, Fraktur).

Flyer by Sally Kenyon
Prom by Maria Sherman

Venue Information:
First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia
2125 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA, 19103
http://www.philauu.org/

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