Having released their album Cheater a year ago to much acclaim, and soon to arrive in the UK for a bunch of live shows, Norway’s Pom Poko today announce news of a brilliant new 4-track EP This Is Our House released 28th January via Bella Union. Of the EP the band say: “This EP is both an afterthought and a peek into the future for us. We are combining new recordings of old songs, old recordings of old songs and new recordings of new songs on it, and it’s kind of a demonstration of all the different identities we feel that Pom Poko can have; hammering fuzz-rock grooves, soft and yearning melodies and deconstructed noisy explorations.”
Pom Poko have shared the EP’s opening track “Enduro Corner”.
On the track the band say: “This is a song we recorded and finished in Italy, when we were there quite a while ago. We were working very hard, lots of hours every day, and watching movies almost every night. We watched a movie called Free Solo, about a guy climbing a huge mountain without any ropes, and Enduro Corner was the name of a part of the route he was climbing. This is quite a soft and mellow song for us, but we tried to shape it in an interesting way without it becoming too soft and without ruining the nice nerve we thought we had created.”
Pom Poko UK live dates…
31st January – Cardiff – Clwb Ifor Bach
1st February – Guildford – Boileroom
3rd February – Norwich – Arts Centre
4th February – Bedford – Esquires
5th February – Margate – Elsewhere
6th February – Portsmouth – Wedgewood Rooms
5th March – Washington DC, USA – Songbyrd
7th March – Allston, USA – Brighton Music Hall
8th March – Philadelphia, USA – The Foundery At The Fillmore
9th March – Brooklyn, USA – Elsewhere
11th March – Toronto, CA – Hard Luck Bar
12th March – Detroit, CA – The Crofoot
14th March – Chicago, USA – Cobra Lounge
15th March – St. Louis, USA – Off Broadway
17th March – Austin, USA – SXSW
20th March – Dallas, USA – HOB Cambridge Room
23rd March – Phoenix, USA – Rebel Lounge
24th March – Santa Ana, USA – Constellation Room
25th March – Los Angeles, USA – Moroccan Lounge
26th March – San Francisco, USA – Brick + Mortar
28th March – Vancouver, CA – Biltmore Cabaret
29th March – Portland, USA – Mississippi Studios
30th March – Seattle, USA – Croc 2nd
16th April – Liverpool – Futurama
17th April – Liverpool – Futurama
19th April – York – The Crescent
20th April – Stoke-On-Trent – The Sugarmill
21st April – Huddersfield – The Parish
23rd April – Cambridge – Sound & Vision
