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████ GENRE...[ Rock CAT#....[ BELLA1110DIG ████
████ LABEL...[ Bella Union ENCODER.[ Lame 3.99.5 ████
████ YEAR....[ 2021 QUALiTY.[ 320kbps ████
████ SOURCE..[ WEB MODE....[ Joint Stereo ████
████ PLAYTIME[ 35:28 REL.DATE[ 01.17.2021 ████
████ TRACKS..[ 10 RiPPER..[ TEAM OMA ████
████ SiZE....[ 81,39 MB SUPPLiER[ TEAM OMA ████
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████ 01 Cheater 04:01 ████
████ 02 Like A Lady 03:01 ████
████ 03 Andrew 03:04 ████
████ 04 My Candidacy 03:19 ████
████ 05 Danger Baby 04:12 ████
████ 06 Andy Go To School 03:27 ████
████ 07 Look 03:35 ████
████ 08 Baroque Denial 03:59 ████
████ 09 Curly Romance 03:36 ████
████ 10 Body Level 03:14 ████
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████ TOTAL: 35:28 ████
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████ https://pompoko.bandcamp.com/album/cheater ████
████ ████
████ ôIf you have a vacancy for Favourite New Band, ████
████ Pom Poko would like to apply for the role,ö ████
████ tweeted Tim Burgess in April, as NorwayÆs ████
████ finest punk-pop anti-conformists revisited ████
████ their joyous debut album, Birthday, for one of ████
████ TimÆs mood-lifting Twitter listening parties. ████
████ Pom Poko pimp their CV on all fronts with their ████
████ glorious second album, Cheater, due for release ████
████ via Bella Union in November. Between the ████
████ quartetÆs sweet melodies, galvanic punky ████
████ ructions and wild-at-art-rock eruptions, ████
████ Cheater is the sound of a band celebrating the ████
████ binding extremes that make them so uniquely ████
████ qualified to thrill: and, like TimÆs listening ████
████ party, to fulfil any need you might have for a ████
████ pick-you-up. ████
████ ████
████ As singer Ragnhild Fangel explains of the leap ████
████ from Birthday to Cheater, ôI think itÆs very ████
████ accurate to say that we wanted to embrace our ████
████ extremes a bit more. In the production process ████
████ I think we aimed more for some sort of contrast ████
████ between the meticulously written and arranged ████
████ songs and a more chaotic execution and ████
████ recording, but also let ourselves explore the ████
████ less frantic parts of the Pom Poko universe. I ████
████ think both in the more extreme and painful way, ████
████ and in the sweet and lovely way, this album is ████
████ kind of amplified.ö ████
████ ████
████ Both sonically and thematically, that sense of ████
████ amplification asserts itself right off the bat ████
████ with the tearaway title-track. Bursting into ████
████ life on the back of a blast of fractious guitar ████
████ noise, a thrashing riff and a sweetly sardonic ████
████ vocal, ôCheaterö laces its serotonin rush with ████
████ tangy lyrics about dreams and, says Ragnhild, ████
████ the kind of ôcheating kid who doesnÆt ████
████ understand why they didnÆt get things exactly ████
████ like they wanted on their first tryö: thematic ████
████ motifs that reverberate throughout the album. ████
████ ████
████ From here, Pom Poko court their extremes with ████
████ firecracker confidence. Its lilting melody ████
████ laced with a critique of gender stereotypes and ████
████ set to a Breeders-style lurch, ôLike A Ladyö is ████
████ sharp and catchy. ôAndrewö upholds a facility ████
████ for simplicity in one of Pom PokoÆs loveliest ████
████ choruses, though a band such as this will never ████
████ settle for the obvious: Martin Miguel TonneÆs ████
████ jazzy guitars seem to do everything except what ████
████ you expect them to. ████
████ ████
████ Further evidence arrives in the contrast ████
████ between the thrilling, think-on-its-feet ████
████ thrash-pop of ôMy Candidacyö û made in less ████
████ than three hours û and the mellifluous ôDanger ████
████ Babyö, a tale of irrational fears with ████
████ RagnhildÆs vocal and MartinÆs guitar merged in ████
████ unexpected union. That love for surprise ████
████ synchronicities, slanted sounds and unexpected ████
████ subject matter propels ôAndy Go to Schoolö, ████
████ where a tempo-tweaked guitar line accompanies a ████
████ lyric extolling the pleasures of water parks ████
████ and a free-flowing sonic palette. ôTowards the ████
████ end one of the guitar pedals made a huge BZZZ ████
████ sound in a pause, ████
████ ████
████ but we thought it was cool and raw so we just ████
████ rolled with it,ö says Ragnhild. ôWe like to mix ████
████ the feeling of a surgically produced piece of ████
████ music with the random sounds that also happen ████
████ when you are a band playing together.ö ████
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████ After its opening, almost Bolan-esque belches ████
████ of guitar, ôLookö extends that spirit of ████
████ openness to an invitation to look outside of ████
████ oneÆs self, before ôBody Levelö ends the album ████
████ on a characteristically generous, unguarded û ████
████ amplified û note of positivity. ôThings get ████
████ better,ö sings Fangel, embracing directness ████
████ with the same readiness as Pom Poko exult in ████
████ giddy intricacy. ████
████ ████
████ The sound of four distinct personalities ████
████ driving in divergent directions towards one ████
████ destination, the result is an evolved snapshot ████
████ of the bracingly contrary chemistry forged when ████
████ Fangel, Tonne, Jonas Kroevel (bass) and Ola ████
████ Djupvik (drums) united to play punk during a ████
████ jazz gig at a literature festival in Trondheim ████
████ (the band-members studied jazz there.) ████
████ ████
████ Taking their name and spirit from Japanese ████
████ animation visionaries Studio GhibliÆs ████
████ marvellously out-there film about raccoon-dog ████
████ rebels with unfeasibly large testicles, Pom ████
████ Poko showcased that convulsive individuality to ████
████ exuberant effect on 2019Æs Birthday. Along the ████
████ way, they drew praise from NME, Interview ████
████ Magazine, DIY, PopMatters, The Line Of Best ████
████ Fit, The Independent and BBC Radio 6, where ████
████ Miranda Sawyer was moved to note that ████
████ BirthdayÆs ôCrazy Energy Nightö seems to ████
████ contain about 20 songs in one. Meanwhile, a ████
████ huge touring schedule included countless sold- ████
████ out headline shows and a rapturously received ████
████ UK jaunt with Ezra Furman. ████
████ ████
████ Written in the same run that produced interim ████
████ releases ôLeg Dayö (with its playful dance- ████
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████ recorded/produced in cooperation with Marcus ████
████ Forsgren (Jaga Jazzist, Broen, Arc Iris), ████
████ Cheater does its predecessor proud on every ████
████ front. Bursting with colour and wonky life from ████
████ its cover art (by close collaborator Erlend ████
████ Peder Kvam) outwards, it differs from Birthday ████
████ primarily in that its songs did not have a ████
████ chance to be road-tested before going into the ████
████ studio. But you wouldnÆt know it. As Ragnhild ████
████ explains, ôThat meant we had to practice the ████
████ songs in a more serious way, but it also meant ████
████ the songs had more potential to change when we ████
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