pôt-pot channel krautrock and harmonium drones on September release

Irish quintet pôt-pot will release their debut album Warsaw 480km on September 19th through felte. The ten-track record builds from demos Mark Waldron-Hyden composed during a period following his father’s death, later developed through full-band studio sessions with Sara Leslie, Elaine Malone, Oliver Smith, and Joe Armitage.

Title: Warsaw 480km
Artist: pôt-pot
Release Date: 2025-09-19
Genres: Experimental Music, Krautrock, Post-punk, Psychedelic Rock
Label: Felte Records
Description: Irish quintet pôt-pot announce debut album Warsaw 480km on felte Records, September 19th. Mark Waldron-Hyden processes grief through krautrock grooves.

The album title comes from a road sign glimpsed during a drive to collect Waldron-Hyden’s father’s ashes. The driver mentioned a previous journey from Ireland to Poland, where after days of driving in darkness, a single sign appeared reading “WARSAW 480 KM”. This image of distant but tangible destination became central to the album’s conceptual framework.

pôt-pot formed around Waldron-Hyden‘s multi-instrumental work, with the current lineup crystallizing through various Dublin music scene connections. Leslie and Smith contribute dual guitars alongside Malone‘s vocals, while Armitage handles bass duties. The band’s sound draws from krautrock’s propulsive elements, layered with harmonium, controlled feedback, and interlocking male-female vocal arrangements.

The album’s ten songs document Waldron-Hyden‘s period of geographic and emotional instability, when he was “not really living in one place.” The band’s collaborative development of these initial compositions became part of processing this transitional period, with the group dynamic informing the final arrangements.

Waldron-Hyden describes the band’s instrumental approach as deliberately economical. Smith and Leslie work primarily with single pedals and borrowed equipment, using modulation sparingly in favor of playing techniques and collective understanding of atmospheric development. This stripped-down methodology shapes the album’s textural range without relying on extensive effects processing.

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