Listen to Pom Poko’s “nearly impossible to play” new single ‘Go’

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Pom Poko have shared their high-speed new single, ‘Go’. Check it out below.The “daring” new song follows the release of singles ‘Champion’ and ‘Growing Story’, all taken from the band’s recently announced upcoming album third ‘The Champion‘, which is set for release on August 16 via Bella Union.Discussing the technicalities of the track, the band joked: “Somehow we ended up writing an instrumental that ended up being nearly impossible to play.“We ended up combining string harmonics in both guitar and bass with uneven musical periods at a breakneck speed, which is a daring choice to say the least.

This will be a fun – and challenging! – song to play live.”Drawing from similar themes to previous offering ‘Growing Story’, which touched on “growing up […] and finding yourself in a place where you realise you can contain a lot of different stuff at the same time”, ‘Go’ is inspired by feeling overwhelmed by life.“This song is about the times when you feel like your life is just a never-ending messy to-do list, or like unorganised cleaning, you just do a lot of stuff and when you take a breath you don’t understand what you did or if you cleaned anything at all,” the band explained. “And you can’t think of any solution but to run away.”Reflecting on the new album, which will be their first self-produced record, drummer Ola Djupvik said the band are now “at the point where we can work, like, telepathically”.He continued: “While making the album, we talked very little in the studio, and there was very little artistic intention that we had to convey to each other.

Everyone knew what they were supposed to do. Maybe when we’re trying to communicate with a producer, we tend to cram in a lot of ideas, whereas now it’s like, ‘This is.