Beloved Australian five-piece Pond offer a skerrick of hope in a hostile world with their new record - their 11th - 'Terrestrials'. A cyclone of urgent, scorched earth rock’n’roll, 'Terrestrials' tips the hat to the sounds of then while squarely facing up to the here and now. Conceived from a place of reverence for a particularly potent epoch in Oz rock, Terrestrials mines the sound of open sky melancholia, heat haze sizzling on the plains and jangly pub backrooms that hits an eternally poignant nerve for anyone familiar with the sound, time and place.

Like much of the Pond catalogue, 'Terrestrials' is a record of people and place, of exploring the identity of each, as well as where and how they intersect and interact. 'Terrestrials' twitches with the desperation of people and planet on the brink, but ultimately bets on the beauty of both to prevail.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: A woozy, thundering wonder from Australian rockers Pond perfectly displaying their cosmic intensity and the enduring physicality of their sound, ELEVEN albums in! This time sees a perfectly balanced amount of deeply funky musicanship to their equally important capable clownery, and the balance is perfectly visible from rich poppy synth works to syncopated, staggered acid-folk. Lovely.

TRACK LISTING

1. Skyworks
2. Casuarina
3. Through The Heather
4. Two Hands
5. Roebuck Plains
6. The Fatal Shore
7. Tourmaline
8. Terrestrials
9. Personal Hell
10. Nashville (I’m Dying)