POND's New Studio Album '9' Out Today via Spinning Top Records

POND  9 ALBUM OUT TODAY!

“As accessible and funky as anything in POND’s considerable discography. [They} do their best to get your blood pumping with hectic dance-punk that brings to mind LCD Soundsystem mixed with Suicide. It’s chaotic and manic, but it suits POND well, and they don’t lose their stride at any point." -Consequence “A spacey reverie” -Stereogum "If Pond's last album saw them doing Pond-as-Springsteen, this is entirely Pond-as-Prince — and it's fucking cool." -PAPER Magazine "Quickly turn up the volume and let your body and soul awaken to the spaced-out, disco-psychedelia.” -The Revue “Psychedelia-tinged funk groove evocative of grainy ‘70s and ‘80s club footage with the warmth of nostalgia washed over it." -Paste  Today, Australian provocateurs POND, have released their 9th studio album, naturally titled, 9 via Spinning Top. 0n 9, Pond recaptures an anarchic sense of uncertainty and fly closer than ever before to the creative supernova that has blazed across so much of the band’s music. Produced by Pond and mixed by Jay Watson and James Ireland, on 9, Pond’s explorations are funnelled into electrifying bursts of pure psych-pop joy.. Above all though, what you get from 9 is a sense of creative abandon and just plain fun  9 is available everywhere today in digital formats as well as multiple colour options in 12” vinyl, CD and cassette via pondband.ffm.to/nine.

Photo credit: Matsu Over the last several months, POND has released album singles including, “Toast,” “Human Touch,” “America’s Cup” and lead track “Pink Lunettes.”“We sort of gave ourselves permission to make something stuffed this time. We'd settled into a pretty tight routine with the last few albums and wanted to shake a boat with this so we started off with filling a few tape reels with some absolutely heinous improvised sonic babble which, after much sifting, became the first few songs of the album. We also wanted to up the tempo. The last few albums have a neat little mantra or repetitive theme. If I was forced to find something like that in 9, I guess it would be ‘biography’ or ‘observation’ - a lot of the lyrics seem to focus on single people's lives, or the lives of small moments or small things when you zoom real close up and they reveal something deeper. Stuff like my cheap Chinese slippers, or a soiled teddy bear, or Agnes Martin (not to put them in the same category, although maybe Agnes would've appreciated it). In the Rorschach test of re-reading lyrics, one thing that sticks out is a fixation on leaving behind a time of golden optimism and uncynical abandon. We can't look at ourselves the same anymore, and the world we've built provides a scary lense for viewing our past,” muses lead singer Nicholas Allbrook on the album.  Originally formed in the turn of the 2010’s, as “a Royal Trux-cum-Cream power trio,” fronted by Allbrook with Jay Watson and Joe Ryan, Pond added Jamie Terry shortly afterwards, with James Ireland later rounding out the irrepressible five-piece. Ever prolific, Pond boasts an impressive eight studio albums in their ever expanding repertoire. 2019 was a milestone year for the one-of-a-kind collective with the release of their most critically acclaimed album to date, Tasmania. The LP debuted at #15 on the ARIA album chart and #2 on the AIR independent chart. Pond possesses an ever-expanding performance resumé, having toured with Arctic Monkeys, MGMT Flaming Lips. They have stunned at premiere musical festivals around the world including Glastonbury, Coachella, Primavera, Bonnaroo, Reading and Leeds, The Governors Ball, South by Southwest, St Jerome’s Laneway, Splendour in the Grass and more, and have sold out countless venues around the globe from New York’s Bowery Ballroom to Paris’ La Gaite Lyrique and London’s O2 Forum.