I took a 12-year break from focusing on music and pretty much the last thing I remembered was that the Pains of Being Pure at Heart were really, really good. And then I came back and they still were, even if they since had disbanded. Last year, the band reunited for a number of gigs though, while this year the great Slumberland Records put out an album with ten songs taken from early singles. The perfect dreamy reflection song Higher than the Stars, originally released in 2009, is my favourite. “Now you can’t think straight / Because you’re not straight”.