Pom Pom Squad – Mirror Starts Moving Without Me
Today, Pom Pom Squad announces Mirror Starts Moving Without Me, their eclectic, fully-loaded new album which will drop October 25th via City Slang Records.
Pom Pom Squad’s album Death of a Cheerleader may have been heralded as one of 2021’s standout indie rock debut records, but with Mirror Starts Moving Without Me, the band is vehemently disavowing the expectations laid upon them, delivering a body of work that self-examines one’s own limits of identity… before taking a massive sledgehammer to any walls boxing them in.
Pom Pom Squad bolsters today’s album announcement with the release of “Spinning”, a thrashing manifestation of growth through trauma, complete with crunching guitars and a chorus meant to be shouted out from the top of your lungs.
“The song represents a moment when I was learning to cope with painful memories of the past and how they’ve shaped my future,” said Pom Pom Squad frontperson Mia Berrin. “In accepting them, I’ve been able to find more freedom and forgiveness within myself.”
Pom Pom Squad has also shared the music video for “Spinning”, directed by Mia Berrin and Benjamin Lieber.
Speaking about the “Spinning” video, Barren noted: “A lot of the lyrics on the album have to do with watching/analyzing yourself, so I knew I wanted to create a surveillance room setup for something. It turned out to be a really fun home-base for the “Spinning” video.”
Berrin elaborates on the significance of the album’s title: “the album title is inspired by a horror movie trope and relates to the uncanny feeling of seeing yourself reflected — both literally and figuratively. It was my most challenging creative experience to date and a true labor of love.”
On her creative inspirations for the album, Berrin says: “I took a lot of inspiration from my younger self on this album. I wanted to get back in touch with my creative roots. After hitting a particularly rough bout of writer’s block, I challenged myself to make a playlist of my all-time favorite songs from childhood to adulthood. It was healing in a way I didn’t expect! Before we went into the studio I made my bandmates and Cody do the same, then we all listened to each other’s and had a long conversation about them. Through the sessions for Mirror we were all pulling references from our collective playlists more than anything else.”
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