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”