Pom Poko preview new album with third single "Like A Lady"

"Like A Lady" follows earlier releases "My Candidacy" and "Andrew".

The band reveals it was one of the first songs they wrote for Cheater, adding, "We started writing it in a cabin near Oslo and finished it in Piemonte in Italy, where we also started recording it. The whole song actually started with a long, jam-like sort of noise-rock intro, but when it was time to record it our friend/engineer/co-producer Marcus Forsgren suggested more of a Breeders/grungy intro that we just went with on the fly. The lyrics for the song slowly grew out from just jamming together, and are about what makes, or what one thinks makes, a woman, what even being a woman means, and it’s also a kind of tribute to all the different ways of being a woman that are out there."

Speaking about the differences between Cheater and their 2019 debut LP Birthday, vocalist Ragnhild Fangel says, "I think it’s 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."

Pom Poko recorded their new LP with help from Marcus Forsgren (Jaga Jazzist, Broen, Arc Iris). The band had to practice the songs even more than usual, seeing as the coronavirus pandemic stopped their chances of testing their new material on tour. Fangel adds, "That 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 recorded them since we didn’t have such a clear image of what each song should/could be as the last time."