I love a new discovery. And the strangely named pôt-pot are exactly my cup of tea with their propulsive psychedelic krautrock.

Blending motorik grooves, harmonium drones and psychedelic swirls, they’re an Irish band based in Lisbon, about to release their second album, titled Warsaw 480km.

The band is led by vocalist and drummer Mark Waldron-Hyden, who began work on the album during a period of grief and personal upheaval (it says here).

Waldron-Hyden is joined by guitarist Mykle Oliver Smith, Joe Armitage on bass and Elaine Malone on harmonium, with Elaine and Mykle singing harmony vocals.

They released an album called Going Insane last year on Bandcamp, though Waldron-Hyden had previously put out several very different experimental improv albums, dating back to 2020.

This song, WRSW, is a chronicle of Waldron-Hyden being driven to collect and deliver his father’s ashes. On the journey the driver told him about a journey he had taken from Ireland to Poland where, in dead of night after days of driving, a solitary road sign appeared reading “Warsaw 480km.”

“I identified with that image of blackness punctuated suddenly by some faraway but tangible relief.”