#192: Perfectly Imperfect

Tyler Bainbridge and Alex Cushing on The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Chopped Levi 569s, The Color Navy, Technology Detoxes, and more.

If you’re new here after any of our June guests…welcome! Perfectly Imperfect is a twice-weekly newsletter featuring a taste of someone’s taste and once a month we the editors, Tyler and Alex, like to share what we’ve been into.

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🎵 The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

I’ve talked about my love of The Radio Dept. and that era of indie rock on the newsletter before, but I somehow totally missed the boat on the band The Pains of Being Pure at Heart and their self titled record until recently. They use a similar flavor of vocal effect mixed with punchy lofi instrumentation and I’m a total sucker for it. I think this sound, and guitar music overall, are going to come back in a big way.

☀️ Banana Boat SPF 4 Tanning Oil

Life is too short to care about maintaining perfect skin. I’…