POND Returns With Riveting New Single ‘Terrestrials'
The track arrives ahead of POND’s upcoming American tour with DJO.
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Psychedelic Perth wonders POND are back with brand new single, ‘Terrestrials’, a song pondering (pun intended) the mystery of humanity's ability to be both loving and cruel.
Speaking on the riveting new single, POND frontman Nicholas Allbrook says, “Gum wrote the music for this one and we recorded this in Mullumbimby with Julian Abbott at Nowave studio. This song is about the weirdest of all the terrestrials, people. Hellbent on flying away from or killing our home soil, with a big appetite for destruction, guns, roses. We can love and connect and nurture and inflict unbearable cruelty. You all know this but, yeah, it’s kind of a great mystery isn't it?
“It's almost more supernatural than extraterrestrials. Which is probably why we wrote this song. There aren't many of us who can forget for even a second about the unborn tomorrows and dead yesterdays but among them are, apparently, kids and people in love. My cousin Iz helped write this with our chats.”
There’s a bit of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard to this one, with POND delivering another mind-altering dose of foot-tapping, guitar-driven goodness.
The single is accompanied by a psychedelic music video produced by Jesse Taylor Smith that you can check out below.
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Emerging from the shadow of fellow Perth psych rockers Tame Impala, POND, led by Nick Allbrook, have established themselves as one of the country’s most impressive experimental rock acts.
The band’s tenth album, 2024’s Stung!, marked a shift in their creative and recording process and was critically acclaimed.
To coincide with the release of ‘Terrestrials’, POND are heading on the road with Djo, the musical project of actor, producer and songwriter Joe Keery.
‘Terrestrials’ by POND is out now. Listen/buy here.
