Pond have shared their “melancholic, searching” new single ‘Through The Heather’ – check it out below.
The Australian psych rockersare preparing to release their 11thstudio album ‘Terrestrials’ on June 19 via their own imprintMangovision(pre-order here), andthey have already released the record’s title track, as well as ‘Two Hands’.
Now, they have released ‘ThroughTheHeather’,a track thatwas conceived during the band’s European tour last year, when drummerJames‘Gin’ Irelandwas 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:
FrontmanNicholas Allbrook has said:“Sometimes rock and roll is a glamorous game baby, butmainly itisn’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 whileMasterChefplayed 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’
- ‘TheFatal Shore’
- ‘Tourmaline’
- ‘Terrestrials’
- ‘Personal Hell’
- ‘Nashville (I’mDying)’
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The band are also playing a US tour from July to September,some of which is in support of Djo. Ticketsare availablehere.
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
*supportingDjo
Pond’s last album was ‘Stung!’ in 2024, itself a follow-on from2021’s‘9’. In afour-star reviewof that album, Rhys Buchanan wrote forNME: “It can be a risky game to throw yourself into so manydifferent styleson 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.
“Havingperhaps takentheir psych-pop to the edges of what’s possible, Ponddeservethis moment. Hopefully, it proves a gateway to a new era for the band that keeps on giving.”