POND’s new Album ‘Terrestrials’ out Now
The Perth outfit is also conducting several special in-store album release signings over the next week.
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POND’s latest album, Terrestrials, is finally out now via the band’s new imprint Mangovision via Secretly Distribution.
Recorded by Nick Allbrook, Jay Watson, Joe Ryan, Jamie Terry and James Ireland, who all comprise POND, Terrestrials was made using a unique set of rules: “No fuzz pedal. No ballads. No Pink Floyd shit.”
Inspired by classic Aussie pub rock, the album is like a worn pair of acid-washed Levi’s with beer stains, spanning a number of different genres and soundscapes that features the previously released singles ‘Terrestrials’, ‘Two Hands’, ‘Through The Heather’ and focus track ‘Skyworks’.
New track ‘Skyworks’ is about the country’s complicagted history with Austrlaia Day and the juxtaposition of public celebrations against the painful history behind its origin. Nick Allbrook spoke on the new song saying “The skyworks happen every year on the day Australia was invaded and claimed by the crown. They explode over the river in a gaudy display of drunkenness and patriotism, sponsored by the Lotto. We love a flutter. The river is bejewelled with magical glittering lights, and loud bangs that remind some of canons and muskets. The river is ablaze, magic, filthy, like a Hieronymus Bosch picture, strewn with bottles and shit in the morning. It’s a confusing time for a confused people. Joe Ryan wrote the main chord progression for this one and then it grew in weird ways.”
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Terrestrials arrives on the heels of POND’s headline North American tour and run of dates supporting Djo. The band have also locked in three special in-store signings this weekend in Meanjin/Brisbane and Walyalup/Fremantle.
Fans in Meanjin/Brisbane can catch POND for free at Second Rodeo West End (DJ set + signing) on Friday 19 June and at Against the Grain Festival on Saturday 20 June. POND then head home for an in-store at Mills Records (DJ set + signing) on Thursday 25 June.
Terrestrials is out now via Mangovision via Secretly Distribution. Listen here.
Terrestrials
Skyworks
Casuarina
Through The Heather
Two Hands
Roebuck Plains
The Fatal Shore
Tourmaline
Terrestrials
Personal Hell
Nashville (I’m Dying)
