The inevitable yet still wholly welcome OG lineup The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart reunion started out at a snail’s pace – announced in August of last year with an extensive Spanish tour starting this month. They’ve since added a couple of Italian dates for May and a UK run in November, but North America is currently looking at just three – two Slide Away shoegaze fest appearances on the east coast, and the Kilby Block Party in Utah, all this Spring. Presumably more dates on this continent will follow after those appearances are in the rearview, but we will just have to wait and see.

What will be available for all markets is the impending compilation Perfect Right Now: A Slumberland Collection 2008​-​2010, out this week. It collects all the singles around their impossibly twee 2010 self-titled debut, which came out on the titular legendary indie label. Nothing previously unreleased, I don’t believe, but much of it terribly hard to find… if you are a physical media kind of person.

2011’s Belong actually still came out on Slumberland in the US, but with its roaring guitars and Kip Berman showing off his Smashing Pumpkins t-shirt collection and Alan Moulder’s email address it’s sonically quite a ways from their debut. Naturally, I prefer it, and the title track is on of my favourite POBPOH songs. The ’90s kid in me just has a reaction to the sound of someone stepping on the Big Muff in the choruses.

Here’s the official video, and a couple live session performances. Revel in the fuzz.