Pom Pom Squad have introduced their sophomore album, Mirror Begins Shifting With out Me, out on Oct. 25 by way of Metropolis Slang. It follows their 2021 debut, Demise of a Cheerleader, and bandleader Mia Berrin says its title was impressed by “the uncanny feeling of seeing your self mirrored — each actually and figuratively.” She provides, “I took lots of inspiration from my youthful self on this album. I needed to get again in contact with my artistic roots. After hitting a very tough bout of author’s block, I challenged myself to make a playlist of my all-time favourite songs from childhood to maturity. It was therapeutic in a method I didn’t count on! Earlier than we went into the studio, I made my bandmates and Cody [Fitzgerald] do the identical. Then all of us listened to one another’s and had an extended dialog about them. Via the periods for Mirror, we have been all pulling references from our collective playlists greater than anything.”
The album consists of final month’s “Downhill,” and so they’ve given us one other early style with “Spinning.” Berrin says the tune “represents a second once I was studying to deal with painful recollections of the previous and the way they’ve formed my future. In accepting them, I’ve been capable of finding extra freedom and forgiveness inside myself.”
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She directed the video with Benjamin Lieber, and about it, she provides, “Quite a lot of the lyrics on the album should do with watching/analyzing your self, so I knew I needed to create a surveillance room setup for one thing. It turned out to be a very enjoyable dwelling base for the ‘Spinning’ video.” Watch that under.
Pom Pom Squad – Mirror Begins Shifting With out Me tracklist
1. “Downhill”
2. “Spinning”
3. “Avenue Fighter”
4. “Everyone’s Shifting On”
5. “Villain”
6. “Working From Myself”
7. “Messages”
8. “Montauk”
9. “Doll Track”
10. “Tarot Interlude”
11. “The Tower”
