Pom Poko have shared their high-speed new single, ‘Go’. Test it out beneath.
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The “daring” new music follows the discharge of singles ‘Champion’ and ‘Rising Story’, all taken from the band’s not too long ago introduced upcoming album third ‘The Champion‘, which is about for launch on August 16 by way of Bella Union.
Discussing the technicalities of the monitor, the band joked: “One way or the other we ended up writing an instrumental that ended up being almost not possible to play.
“We ended up combining string harmonics in each guitar and bass with uneven musical intervals at a breakneck velocity, which is a daring option to say the least. This can be a enjoyable – and difficult! – music to play reside.”
Drawing from related themes to earlier providing ‘Rising Story’, which touched on “rising up […] and discovering your self in a spot the place you realise you may comprise loads of completely different stuff on the identical time”, ‘Go’ is impressed by feeling overwhelmed by life.
“This music is in regards to the instances once you really feel like your life is only a unending messy to-do listing, or like unorganised cleansing, you simply do loads of stuff and once you take a breath you don’t perceive what you probably did or for those who cleaned something in any respect,” the band defined. “And you may’t consider any answer however to run away.”
Reflecting on the brand new album, which can be their first self-produced report, drummer Ola Djupvik mentioned the band are actually “on the level the place we will work, like, telepathically”.
He continued: “Whereas making the album, we talked little or no within the studio, and there was little or no inventive intention that we needed to convey to one another. Everybody knew what they have been imagined to do. Perhaps once we’re making an attempt to speak with a producer, we are likely to cram in loads of concepts, whereas now it’s like, ‘That is the music.’”
Pom Poko, 2024. CREDIT: Jonathan Vivaas Kise
“We belief one another extra now that we’ve written loads of songs collectively and know one another so properly,” agreed lyricist and vocalist Ragnhild Fangel Jamtveit.
“For me, a minimum of, you see issues clearer when you will have a bit extra space. Once you begin a band in your early twenties, every part is being thrown in your face, you may’t actually see what’s occurring, and also you simply preserve operating. On the finish of the day, these songs are about us, and the worth of our friendship.”
The Norwegian art-rockers additionally not too long ago introduced a UK tour for October – try the dates beneath and purchase tickets here.
OCTOBER
7 – Portsmouth, Wedgewood Rooms
9 – Nottingham, Rescue Rooms
10 – Hebden Bridge, Trades Membership
11 – Blackpool, Bootleg Social
12 – Middlesbrough, Twisterella Pageant
14 – Glasgow, Mono
15 – Newcaste, Cluny
16 – York, Crescent
18 – Sheffield, Sidney and Matilda
19 – Birmingham, Future Days Pageant
20 – Ipswich, St Stephen’s Church
‘The Champion’ marks Pom Poko’s third LP following acclaimed debut ‘Birthday‘ and the follow-up ‘Cheater’. In a 4 star evaluate of the latter, NME wrote that the Norwegian four-piece “make each few seconds really feel like a cliffhanger”, including: “They’ve turned the bizarre up additional nonetheless, and are all the higher for it.”
