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POND
reveals new single + video
HANG A CROSS ON ME
+ 9 Deluxe Album Edition
available Friday 20 May
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Photo credit: Matsu
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“It shouldn’t seem easy for a band to stay so mercilessly vital as Pond are nine records into their career.” – SCENESTR
“The new song is a dramatic, high-speed nu-raver anchored by warbling electro synths and a Motorik beat.” – NME
“It is a supercharged, wild ride of clever chaos…” – 10 MAGAZINE
“Among its mix of roistering anthems and melodramatic balladry, 9 exudes a supple confidence throughout, engaging in some of the most enthralling Australian psychedelia to emerge from 2021.” – DIY | 4 STARS
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Following a string of sold-out performances, Pond shares the exuberant and dance-floor ready single, Hang A Cross On Me, alongside the track’s official video. The new song will appear alongside three new tracks on the deluxe edition of their ARIA #6 album 9, available on Friday 20 May via Spinning Top Records. After the release, the Fremantle five-piece will embark on a UK and European tour with two performances at Primavera Sound.
“Hang A Cross On Me was made infinitely cooler by the return of Cowboy John – musician, poet, fashion icon, Poon’s Head Studio regular, legend. We got Cowboy to feature on Hobo Rocket back in the day. In both songs he insisted on improvising his own lyrics and on only doing one take, and both, of course, were perfect. He meditates on love, life, the universe and everything with his signature fantastical surrealism and cosmic wonder. It’s always a pleasure working with him. He is incredibly rare and brilliant and we love him,” says frontman Nick Allbrook of the song.
Watch the energetic, electric and agile Allbrook trip the light fantastic on the official video, directed by Alex Haygarth and Nick Allbrook. “Me and Alex just sort of roamed around the vast old Fremantle stone chamber of Victoria Hall, setting up little scenes in the basement, on the stage, in the lesser hall and from the gods. The afternoon light blasts through the windows into the theatre. Joe Ryan lent me his laser gloves and everything just sort of came together as we danced about, me with a bedazzled and fringed cowboy hat built by a tripper, Alex with a camera. It felt like the right type of creativity, with lots of grooving around and fun easy ease,” he says.
Available for pre-order now, the metallic silver 180g double LP deluxe edition of 9 features etching and a holographic gatefold sleeve, a 12 page booklet and four brand new tracks. The release features the aforementioned Hang A Cross On Me, the high energy Lights of Leeming, the unhinged My Funny Serpentine, and The TAB Took My Baby From Me – a ballad only Pond could pen.
Released in October 2021 and 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. No tune even veers past the five minute mark. Above all though, what you get from the album is a sense of creative abandon and just plain fun. The album features the vacillating psych-rock jam Human Touch, the blissed out Toast, the elastic hipped robo-funk single America’s Cup and the high energy, no-wave lead track Pink Lunettes, On 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.
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POND
TOUR DATES
UK + EUROPE – JUNE 2022
Presented by Spinning Top
Tickets on sale now
Friday 3 June | Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona ES – SOLD OUT
Saturday 4 June | Levitation France, Angers FR
Sunday 5 June | Rock School Barbey, Bordeaux, FR
Tuesday 7 June | Capitol, Santiago de Compostela ES
Saturday 11 June | Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona ES – SOLD OUT
Tuesday 14 June| SWG3 TV Studio, Glasgow UK
Wednesday 15 June | Brudenell Social Club, Leeds UK
Friday 17 June | Electric Ballroom, London UK
Saturday 18 June | Manchester Academy 2, Manchester, UK
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New single Hang A Cross On Me out now
9 deluxe album edition out Friday 20 May
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About POND
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 nine studio albums in their ever expanding repertoire.
Pond possesses an ever-expanding performance resumé, having toured with Arctic Monkeys, MGMT and 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. They have sold out countless venues around the globe from New York’s Bowery Ballroom to Paris’ La Gaite Lyrique and London’s O2 Forum.
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