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Pom Poko, 2024. CREDIT: Jonathan Vivaas Kise<\/p>\n
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Pom Poko have shared their high-speed new single, \u2018Go\u2019. Test it out beneath.<\/p>\n
READ MORE:\u00a0Pom Poko: \u201cWe will do no matter we would like \u2013 typically it disgusts us\u201d<\/p>\n
The \u201cdaring\u201d new music follows the discharge of singles \u2018Champion\u2019 and \u2018Rising Story\u2019, all taken from the band\u2019s not too long ago introduced upcoming album third \u2018The Champion\u2018, which is about for launch on August 16 by way of Bella Union.<\/p>\n
Discussing the technicalities of the monitor, the band joked: \u201cOne way or the other we ended up writing an instrumental that ended up being almost not possible to play.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe 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 \u2013 and difficult! \u2013 music to play reside.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Drawing from related themes to earlier providing \u2018Rising Story\u2019, which touched on \u201crising up [\u2026] and discovering your self in a spot the place you realise you may comprise loads of completely different stuff on the identical time\u201d, \u2018Go\u2019 is impressed by feeling overwhelmed by life.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis 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\u2019t perceive what you probably did or for those who cleaned something in any respect,\u201d the band defined. \u201cAnd you may\u2019t consider any answer however to run away.\u201d<\/p>\n
Reflecting on the brand new album, which can be their first self-produced report, drummer Ola Djupvik mentioned the band are actually \u201con the level the place we will work, like, telepathically\u201d.<\/p>\n
He continued: \u201cWhereas 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\u2019re making an attempt to speak with a producer, we are likely to cram in loads of concepts, whereas now it\u2019s like, \u2018That is the music.’\u201d<\/p>\n
Pom Poko, 2024. CREDIT: Jonathan Vivaas Kise<\/p>\n
\u201cWe belief one another extra now that we\u2019ve written loads of songs collectively and know one another so properly,\u201d agreed lyricist and vocalist Ragnhild Fangel Jamtveit.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor 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\u2019t actually see what\u2019s occurring, and also you simply preserve operating. On the finish of the day, these songs are about us, and the worth of our friendship.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Norwegian art-rockers additionally not too long ago introduced a UK tour for October \u2013 try the dates beneath and purchase tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n OCTOBER<\/p>\n 7 \u2013 Portsmouth, Wedgewood Rooms \u2018The Champion\u2019 marks Pom Poko\u2019s third LP following acclaimed debut \u2018Birthday\u2018 and the follow-up \u2018Cheater\u2019. In a 4 star evaluate of the latter, NME wrote that the Norwegian four-piece \u201cmake each few seconds really feel like a cliffhanger\u201d, including: \u201cThey\u2019ve turned the bizarre up additional nonetheless, and are all the higher for it.\u201d<\/p>\n
9 \u2013 Nottingham, Rescue Rooms
10 \u2013 Hebden Bridge, Trades Membership
11 \u2013 Blackpool, Bootleg Social
12 \u2013 Middlesbrough, Twisterella Pageant
14 \u2013 Glasgow, Mono
15 \u2013 Newcaste, Cluny
16 \u2013 York, Crescent
18 \u2013 Sheffield, Sidney and Matilda
19 \u2013 Birmingham, Future Days Pageant
20 \u2013 Ipswich, St Stephen\u2019s Church<\/p>\n