Album Review: Champion by Pom Poko

The Norwegian outfit’s third album is the sound of a band fully focused and completely in control of what makes them special The third album from Norwegian band Pom Poko finds them consolidating their somewhat fevered post-punk-post-pop-jazz (there must be some kind of term for it… Post-Poz?) into what is undoubtedly their most focused and accessible work to date. That’s not to say that they’ve jettisoned any of the strange time-signatures, chord choices and quirkiness. What they’ve managed to do is to streamline their sound into something that, on the surface, sounds like cutesy pop.

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Norway’s Pom Poko are back with their third album, Champion, which still merges sugary pop hooks with different varieties of post-punk and math rock. However, the band are more comfortable with giving their songs a little room to breathe this time out. Allowing themselves some space puts the songwriting on equal footing with the instrumental pyrotechnics while also reaffirming that they can still go hard whenever they want.

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