POND Announce 11th Studio Album, Share New Single ‘Two Hands’
Terrestrials is out in June on POND’s newly coined imprint Mangovision via Secretly Distribution.
Image Sam Kristofski
POND have revealed their new album Terrestrials is out Friday 19 June on their own newly coined imprint Mangovision via Secretly Distribution.
Recorded by Nick Allbrook, Jay Watson, Joe Ryan, Jamie Terry and James Ireland, who comprise POND, Terrestrials was made using a unique set of rules: “No fuzz pedal. No ballads. No Pink Floyd shit.”
The idea behind the album was “Goths at the pub”, with Terrestrials exploring how people and places intersect and interact, touching on themes such as extractive capitalism, power dynamics, inequality, Indigenous incarceration and eccentric outcasts.
The announcement of Terrestrials is accompanied by new single ‘Two Hands’, with frontman Nicholas Albrook having this to say about the track: “This song is about when mining company Rio Tinto blew up Juukun Gorge in the Hammersley Range in Western Australia. They destroyed sacred rock shelters that were of the highest archaeological, cultural and spiritual significance. The rock shelters contained a cultural sequence spanning 46, 000 years that had been taken care of by the local Indigenous communities.
“I was wondering how the commentators around this country would've reacted if the shoe was on the other foot and someone had demolished the Vatican or Notre Dame or St. Paul’s because it was in the way of their corporate expansion. Anyway, it’s a little word of encouragement that you’ve got every right to be very fucking angry about this injustice.”
POND have also shared a fantastic, ‘80s, Mad Max-style music video for the blistering track, which Albrook explains “was made by us and Sam Kristofski (with heaps of help from Tess Thompson, Kate Green and Christian Dillon). We filmed it in York and the Beverley Offroad Motorsports Association on one of the hottest days of the summer. Az was tough enough to wear full leathers the whole time. Endless thanks to him and Ry for fully embodying the soul of this video with their enduring passion for dust, rust, black cans, circlework and fucked up old motorcars.” Check it out below.
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‘Two Hands’ follows the release of the title track from POND’s upcoming album, which arrives ahead of the band’s upcoming US tour supporting Djo – the musical project of actor, producer, and songwriter Joe Keery, best known for his starring role on Stranger Things.
POND’s only Aussie date so far is an appearance at the returning Against the Grain Festival in Brisbane on Saturday 20 June alongside the likes of Stereolab, Rolling Blackout Coastal Fever, The Belair Lip Bombs and more.
Fingers crossed an Aussie tour is on the horizon later this year.
‘Two Hands’ by POND is out now. Listen here. Terrestrials is out Friday 19 June on their own newly coined imprint Mangovision via Secretly Distribution. Pre-order here.
Terrestrials
Skyworks
Casuarina
Through The Heather
Two Hands
Roebuck Plains
The Fatal Shore
Tourmaline
Terrestrials
Personal Hell
Nashville (I’m Dying)
