Irish/Portuguese quintet pôt-pot, currently based in Lisbon, have released a staggering psych-rock trance track on their latest single, ‘Sextape’, via felte.
As the video is ushered in by vivid colour flashes and teleportative, plucky guitar, ‘Sextape’ immediately shows itself as a striking track. While the song swells with swirling drones, the shifting colours carry us along with the rhythmic vocals. Baring all and cultivating vulnerability, pôt-pot proclaims that the band’s implicit understanding of one another blazes to the core of the song.
I guess the song title stayed as it’s essentially a song that came from an intimate trust between us, which lines up with what should be involved in making a sextape I suppose — intimate trust between parties that whatever each person brings to the scenario will be treated with respect, but that’s me taking a retrospective look on things. The lyrics also stem from themes of trust between people — a quiet, unspoken understanding of each other’s idiosyncrasies “You don’t have to say what you are, I already know” repeated over and over.”
– lead vocalist Mark Waldron-Hyden
Open and peculiar, pôt-pot lay at the liminal edge of musical experience. Enfolded in the impression it casts and the poetry it stirs, ‘Sextape’ is an example of love transcended. Their debut album, Warsaw 480km, is scheduled for release on 19 September.
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