Pom Poko share “grungy and heavy-hitting” new single ‘Rising Story’, announce 2024 UK tour
Pom Poko have shared a brand new single, ‘Rising Story’ and introduced a UK tour for later this 12 months.
The “grungy and heavy-hitting” observe is the newest reduce to be taken from the band’s forthcoming album ‘The Champion’, which will likely be launched August 16 by way of Bella Union.
Commenting on the observe Pom Poko stated: “On this album we wished to discover simplifying our sound and make some songs a bit extra grungy and heavy-hitting. ‘Rising Story’ got here out of that course of.
“This music and its title is form of describing the themes on this file: rising up, no matter meaning, and discovering your self in a spot the place you realise you’ll be able to comprise numerous totally different stuff on the identical time.”
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The Norwegian band have additionally introduced a UK tour for October – take a look at the dates under 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
“It appears like we’re maturing and rising up collectively,” defined Ragnhild Fangel Jamtveit when talking concerning the new album. “By the point this album comes out, we’ll have been a band for eight years. It’s like we’re evolving. If you’re not grinding with the band on a regular basis, you achieve an appreciation for what you’ve constructed. It’s like a really bizarre and actually beautiful little gang to hang around in. I virtually really feel like we’re superheroes—it’s like being part of Powerpuff Women.”
“We’re on the level the place we are able to work, like, telepathically,” continued drummer Ola Djupvik. “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 presupposed to do. Possibly after we’re attempting to speak with a producer, we are likely to cram in numerous concepts, whereas now it’s like, ‘That is the music.’”