Here’s a literal release for this week: Pom Pom Squad’s newest single is an exercise in blurting out yer blues. Titled “Cherry Blossom,” today’s new track from the Brooklyn group is a knotty little lullaby that oscillates between intimate heartache and feral threats. “Every time I fall asleep / I see you and someone new / under the cherry blossom tree,” confides singer and guitarist Mia Berrin, later bookended by a bark of “I think it’s best you stay the fuck out of my way.” The title of the band’s forthcoming EP conveys their lo-fi sucker punch approach to songwriting even more succinctly with a single interjection — Ow, out September 6.
“In some ways it’s the least poetic song I’ve ever written, but it’s the one that’s taken on the most double meaning for me,” Berrin says of “Cherry Blossom.” “All of the upcoming EP was an exercise in saying the blunt thing, rather than the ‘smart’ thing, and this song is probably the best example of that.”
Get hip below before Ow drops next week.