Pouffe Announce North Island Tour For January (+ Stream New EP)

Free pop two-piece Pouffe have announced a six-stop North Island tour for the new year. The duo, which is made up of Auckland solo artist Kraus and Matt Plunkett of Oamaru-based outfit The Trendees, have just released their new EP, titled I Am Lost At Home, which features half-a-dozen cuts of outsider punk that lyrically explore the challenges of "being a weirdo in a small town". Check out the tour details and stream the new EP below...

Pouffe - North Island “Megazone” Tour

Thursday 5th January, Snails,Palmerston North w/ Kraus and Pom Pom
Friday 6th / Saturday 7th January, Now! Festival, Wairarapa
Tuesday 10th January, House Show, Wellington w/ Strange Stains
Friday 13th January, Golden Dawn, Auckland w/ File Folder
Saturday 14th January, Nivara Lounge, Hamilton w/ File Folder + Celebrity Death Hoax
Sunday 15th January, “No Venues!” Mt Eden, Auckland w/ File Folder + Thistle Group

Here's Pouffe's new EP I Am Lost At Home' hot out the oven...

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Formed in 2007, Pouffe is a Free Pop two-piece featuring Matt Plunkett (The Trendees, Poison Arrow) on vocals and Pat Kraus (Kraus, The Futurians) on guitar. In the tradition of scummily-recorded NZ underground pop music (eg. Tall Dwarfs, Pumice), their music is a chaotic blend of blown-out punk rock, incoherent keyboards, primitive drum-machines, and poetry about hair, dreams about dogs, and driving around in a mall carpark.

As with his work in the Trendees, Plunkett’s lyrics reveal the challenges of being a weirdo in a small town, drawing on overheard op-shop conversations and paranoid thoughts about the neighbours.

Pouffe have released two albums: “MALLL” (2011), and the kaleidoscopic lo-fi masterpiece “We Live in the Mind” (2012). Their new EP “I Am Lost at Home”, and the euphoric/bummer Christmas single “Everything’s Coming Up Christmas (But You’re Not Here)” (recorded at midnight last Christmas Eve) are available now.