Pom Poko debut new track ‘Leg Day’

Renowned for their raucous live shows, Norwegian quartet Pom Poko today share the video for  brand new track Leg Day. Having released their debut album Birthday earlier this year through Bella Union this new track heralds news of further UK shows  – including a run of dates as guests of label-mate Ezra Furman  and follows previously sold-out shows at The Shacklewell Arms and The Lexington in London.

Presenting some context, the band explain; “Leg Day is one of our personal live favourites, because it’s so dancey and usually gets our pulse up quite a bit. The song was written over the course of a year, while we figured out how it should be played, before we found its final form as a Frankenstein distorted disco song about superheros and appreciating one’s legs, and recorded it as the sole inhabitants of a small northern Italian village.”

Pom Poko’s sweetly pop-punk melodies and disco-fried art-rock eruptions together with a sense of free-firing spirit, balls-out individuality is highlighted on Birthday and mirrored no less so in an exhilarating live set. A busy summer in attendance at numerous European festivals is followed by a welcome return to these shores including their biggest UK show to date at London’s Scala. The band then return for a run of shows as guests of label-mate Ezra Furman in November – the full live itinerary is:

August

30 Parkfest, Berlin (RadioEins) DE

September

01 End Of The Road Festival, Dorset UK

October

12 Twisterella, Middlesbrough UK

13 Sneaky Pete´s, Edinburgh UK

14 Phase One, Liverpool UK

15 Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds UK

16 BBC6 live session, Manchester UK

17 Deaf Institute, Manchester UK

18 Wild Paths, Norwich UK

19 Simple Things, Bristol UK

21 The Hope & Ruin, Brighton UK

22 The Joiners, Southampton UK

23 Scala, London UK

24 The Hope & Ruin, Brighton UK

25 Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff UK

26 Hare & Hounds, Birmingham UK

November

11 QMU, Glasgow UK **

12 Albert Hall, Manchester UK* *

13 O2 Academy, Bristol UK **

14 O2 Forum Kentish Town, London UK **

24 Vega Small Hall, København DK **

26 Debaser Strand, Stockholm SE **

** supporting Ezra Furman

NME 

There’s just so much fun to be had with the Norwegian’s art-rock band’s gloriously unhinged debut, an eccentric work that’s no slave to algorithm.”

TLOBF  

“Pom Poko go for broke on their debut album, throwing everything they have against the wall with 

DIY

“..a debut full of fired-up, spiky pop hits”