Pond have shared another taste of their new album, Terrestrials.
Pond announced Terrestrials last month, with the album set for release on June 19th on their own imprint Mangovision via Secretly Distribution.
The album features new single “Through the Heather”, out today, which was initially conceived while the band toured Europe last year.
“Sometimes rock and roll is a glamorous game baby, but mainly it isn’t,” Nick Allbrook says. “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.”
Terrestrials also features recent single “Two Hands”, which is about when mining company Rio Tinto blew up Juukun Gorge in the band’s home state of Western Australia, as well as the title track.
Following the release of Terrestrials next month, Pond will hit the road for headline shows across the US between July and September. Pond will also appear locally at Against the Grain Festival in Brisbane this June, with more Australian shows to be announced.
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Terrestrials is the follow-up to Pond’s 2024 album Stung!, which earned a positive review from Rolling Stone AU/NZ.
“Always adventurous and unafraid to tackle different genres, it’s surprising that it has taken until album 10 for WA’s Pond to release a double album,” we wrote in the 4/5 review. “Sounding like an obscure psych-pop gem from another era, Stung! is Pond in fine, sprawling form.”
Pond’s “Through the Heather” is out now. Terrestrials is out June 19th (pre-save/pre-order here).
