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POND
covers
DRAGON’S RAIN
for triple j Like A Version
+ 9 Deluxe Album Edition
Out Today
+ Performing as special guests for
LIAM GALLAGHER
+ NORTH AMERICAN TOUR ANNOUNCED
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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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Today, Pond releases the deluxe edition of their ARIA #6 album 9 via Spinning Top Records. The album features four brand new tracks including the prog-pop My Funny Serpentine and the dance-floor ready new single Hang A Cross On Me. The Fremantle five-piece also appeared on triple j Like A Version this morning and performed recent single Lights of Leeming and their anarchic rendition of the iconic classic, Rain, by Dragon.
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Following the release, Pond will embark on a UK and European tour with two performances at Primavera Sound this June. The band will perform as special guests on Liam Gallagher’s Australian tour this July, and have also announced a 15-date North American tour for this November and December.
Of the unhinged new focus track, My Funny Serpentine, frontman Nick Allbrook says, “The bass came from a tape loop of one of Jay’s old keyboards and is influenced by my favourite noise making classics Chrome, the Butthole Surfers, Les Rallizes Denudes and the Velvet Underground’s Legendary Guitar Amp Tapes. The song is about getting lost in a middle aged opium dream of self-mythologising, and making teenagers embarrassed.”
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 My Funny Serpentine, current single Hang A Cross On Me, the high energy Lights of Leeming, 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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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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Pond // Photo – Matsu
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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
Performing as special guests for
LIAM GALLAGHER
Saturday 23 July | Aware Super Theatre, Sydney NSW
Wednesday 27 July | John Cain Arena, Melbourne VIC
Saturday 30 July | HBF Stadium, Perth WA
NORTH AMERICAN
Tour Dates
Presented by Spinning Top Music
Tickets on sale now
Monday 28 November | Union Stage, Washington DC
Tuesday 29 November | Webster Hall, New York NY
Thursday 1 December | Underground Arts, Philadelphia PA
Friday 2 December | The Sinclair, Cambridge MA
Saturday 3 December | Studio TD, Montreal QC
Sunday 4 December | Lee’s Place, Toronto ON
Tuesday 6 December | Metro, Chicago IL
Wednesday 7 December | Fine Line Music Cafe, Minneapolis MN
Friday 9 December | Bluebird Theater, Denver CO
Saturday 10 December | Soundwell, Salt Lake City UT
Monday 12 December | Revolution Hall, Portland OR
Tuesday 13 December | Imperial, Vancouver BC
Wednesday 14 December | Neumos, Seattle WA
Friday 16 December | The Fillmore, San Francisco CA
Saturday 17 December | Teragram Ballroom, Los Angeles CA
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New single Hang A Cross On Me out now
9 deluxe album edition out now
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