POND Share New Single ‘Through the Heather’
This is the third track taken from the Perth outfit’s new album Terrestrials, out in June via POND’s newly coined imprint Mangovision via Secretly Distribution.
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POND’s rollout for their highly anticipated new record, Terrestrials, out Friday 19 June, continues with the release of the album’s third single, ‘Through the Heather’.
Released through the band’s new imprint Mangovision via Secretly Distribution, ‘Through the Hearther’ has an ‘80s video game feel to it and was conceived by the band while touring Europe last year.
Drummer/Keyboardist Gin kept himself entertained by conjuring musical experiments on Ableton; a few a day until something stood out. “Then him and [multi-instrumentalist + founding member] Gum worked on it more in a hotel room while watching Ice Road Truckers or something equally shit,” frontman Nicholas Allbrook explains.
Allbrook continues, “Sometimes rock and roll is a glamorous game baby, but mainly it isn’t. Funny that such a beautiful, melancholic, searching song was born surrounded by chip packets and track pants in a van full of filthy pigs.
“We had so much fun making the spring reverb thunderclaps, giving the spring a cheeky little pinch to make it go BOOM, looking out over the Indian Ocean from our porch/studio in Seabird while MasterChef played silently in the corner. Let that be a lesson to all you young rockers ok? Can’t get too inspiring, ya know. Gotta keep a lid on it. Chucking on the telly or making a sandwich or having a nap should do it.”
Recorded by 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.
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The release of ‘Through the Heather’ follows the title track and single ‘Two Hands’, with POND’s new album set to drop ahead of their 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 have also been announced as part of the returning Against the Grain Festival in Brisbane on Saturday 20 June alongside the likes of Stereolab, Rolling Blackout Coastal Fever and The Belair Lip Bombs, with more Aussie dates to be revealed soon.
‘Through the Heahter’ by POND is out now. Listen here. Terrestrials is out Friday 19 June on POND’s 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)
