Pom Poms - Turn You Out (2017)

Turn You Out is the femme fatale trope defined through echoing vocals cascading over guitar-heavy indie-rock songs. The tracks tell a story of lost love, betrayal, and living with reckless abandon. The album’s namesake is the fifth track on the album, with snarling lyrics and a dark melody, detailing a bittersweet and inharmonious relationship driven by disillusion.

Preceding Turn You Out’s release, Pom Poms teased the record with singles “Betty” and “123,” two tracks that illustrate the opposite ends of the spectrum of emotion written into the album. “Betty” is mournful and lamenting, borrowing guitar riffs from a 1960s teen rom-com. Where “Betty” is an admission of unrequited love, “123” is flirtatiously buoyant, with alluring quips like about spin the bottle and seven minutes in heaven.