Pond have shared their “melancholic, searching” new single ‘Through The Heather’ – check it out below.
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The Australian psych rockers are preparing to release their 11th studio album ‘Terrestrials’ on June 19 via their own imprint Mangovision (pre-order here), and they have already released the record’s title track, as well as ‘Two Hands’.
Now, they have released ‘Through The Heather’, a track that was conceived during the band’s European tour last year, when drummer James ‘Gin’ Ireland was experimenting on Ableton.
The song is built around gently twinkling guitars and a dreamily melodic synth line, and you can check out the video here:
Frontman Nicholas Allbrook has said: “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 samwich or having a nap should do it.”
Pond – ‘Terrestrials’ tracklist:
‘Skyworks’
‘Casuarina’
‘Through The Heather’
‘Two Hands’
‘Roebuck Plains’
‘The Fatal Shore’
‘Tourmaline’
‘Terrestrials’
‘Personal Hell’
‘Nashville (I’m Dying)’
The band are also playing a US tour from July to September, some of which is in support of Djo. Tickets are available here.
Pond will play:
JULY
10 – Atlanta, GA, Terminal West
14 – Pittsburgh, PA, Stage AE*
17 – Forest Hills, NY, Forest Hills Stadium*
21 – Portland, ME, Thompson’s Point*
23 – Lewiston, NY, Artpark Amphitheatre*
24 – Toronto, Ont, Concert Hall
31 – Richmond, VA, Allianz Amphitheatre at the Riverfront*
AUGUST
6 – Nashville, TN, Brooklyn Bowl
27 – Chicago, IL, Metro Chicago
29 – Minneapolis, MN, Fine Line
SEPTEMBER
3 – Seattle, WA, The Showbox
7 – Portland, OR, Revolution Hall
12 – Denver, CO, Gothic Theatre
16 – Austin, TX, Mohawk Outdoor
18 – Dallas, TX, Studio at the Bomb Factory
22 – Los Angeles, CA, The Bellwether
* supporting Djo
Pond’s last album was ‘Stung!’ in 2024, itself a follow-on from 2021’s ‘9’. In a four-star review of that album, Rhys Buchanan wrote for NME: “It can be a risky game to throw yourself into so many different styles on a record, let alone within individual songs. Yet – from Bowie to Kurt Cobain and William Burroughs – artists of all kinds have found joy in such surrealist methods of cutting up their work and putting it back together.
“Having perhaps taken their psych-pop to the edges of what’s possible, Pond deserve this moment. Hopefully, it proves a gateway to a new era for the band that keeps on giving.”
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