Name: Birthday
Brand: Pom Poko

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

BELLA846V

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Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

180 Gram Vinyl housed in Gatefold Sleeve with Download.

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2019-02-22

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5400863000196

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Total Cap

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

BELLA846CD

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5400863000202

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Pom Poko

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Bella Union

Bella Union is a UK label that has been run by Simon Raymonde, former member of Cocteau Twins, since 1997. With a focus on discovering new talent, Bella Union has introduced the world to bands such as Fleet Foxes, Beach House, Lanterns on The Lake, I Break Horses, Ballet School, and Midlake. As a ℗ & © coyright holding entity, Bella Union continues to be at the forefront of the music industry.

Pom Poko release their debut album, Birthday, via Bella Union. Between the quartet’s sweetly punky melodies and disco-fried art-rock eruptions, a spirit of free-firing, balls-out individuality courses through this exhilarating debut. The band’s own bad-ass-ery is writ large on album opener Theme1, which locates a sweet spot between Deerhoof and Battles as singer Ragnhild issues loud, clear rebel yells over Martin’s math-rock guitar. Singles My Blood and Follow The Lights layer seductively sweet melodies over squalls of sound, while the funk-fired My Work Is Full of Art offers a kind of mission statement: “I’ll just let freaky surround me,” sings Fangel.

Elsewhere, Pom Poko’s instinctive dynamism teases uplifting thrills from boundary-melting experiments. Glacial shards of guitar bounce off steel-drum flurries on the rapid-fire serotonin fix of Blue, before the sweetly infatuated Honey comes sequenced next to the thrashing tonal lurches of Crazy Energy Night. The sing-song title-track spikes the ranks of sweetly sad birthday songs with a rebellious sting (“I’m not your bitch!”), while Daytripper is a commanding come-on from a band who are no more likely to mince their words than limit their range. If U Want Me 2 Stay resembles The Tra La La Song retooled as a sci-fi cyber-pop anthem of carefree defiance, while Peachy closes the album with an exultant melody and one last declaration of transformative independence: “Watch me as I shape shift.”

LP - 180 Gram Vinyl housed in Gatefold Sleeve with Download.

Birthday

Music GB