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POND
shares new single + visualiser
LIGHTS OF LEEMING

+ Announces 9
deluxe album edition 
Available Friday 20 May

+ TOURING EAST COAST THIS APRIL

+ SECOND MELBOURNE SHOW ANNOUNCED

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Photo credit: Matsu

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“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

“It’s both defiantly Australian and ambitiously international.” – SYDNEY MORNING HERALD | 4 STARS

“Pond take an exhilarating step into experimentation and destruction with 9.” – ROLLING STONE | 4 STARS

“The band that keeps on giving, having pushed their self-proclaimed “polished psych-pop” to its outer reaches, reinvent themselves yet again.” – NME | 4 STARS

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Set to tour the Australian east coast for the first time in two years this April, today Pond unveils their new single and visualiser for Lights of Leeming.  The avant-garde track will appear alongside three new tracks on the deluxe edition their ARIA #6 album 9, available on Friday 20 May via Spinning Top Records.   Following the release, the Fremantle five-piece will embark on a UK and European tour and two performances at Primavera Sound.

Lights of Leeming erupts with a racing tempo, electro synths and air-punching enthusiasm. “Lights of Leeming is a true story about the crushing boredom of suburbia and the wild and destructive things people do to break the monotony, to see that there’s at least something you can do to affect your surroundings – to be seen and validated as a real, existent part of the world – even if it’s just breaking something or getting in trouble. It’s pretty dumb fun, but dumb fun is important, right?’ says Nicholas Allbrook of the track.

The accompanying visualiser was captured in Fremantle, which the band describes as, “GoPro strapped to head, ran into pink goo, summoned from an old video synth.”

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, and is available for pre-order now.  Featuring the aforementioned Lights of Leeming and the unhinged My Funny Serpentine, Pond switches gears on The TAB Took My Baby From Me, a ballad only Nick Allbrook could pen. The album wraps with the exuberant and dance floor ready Hang A Cross On Me. Nick has this to say of the track, “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.”

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. 

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
Tour Date
Australia – April 2022

Presented by Spinning Top + Village Sounds

Special guest CLYPSO performing The Triffid, Metro Theatre + The Croxton

Tickets on sale now

Thursday 7 April | The Triffid, Brisbane QLD*
Friday 8 April | The Metro Theatre, Sydney NSW*
Saturday 9 April | The Croxton, Melbourne VIC*
Sunday 10 April | The Espy, St. Kilda, VIC*  – NEW SHOW
Friday 15 April | Boogie Festival, Tallarook VIC
*Headline show

UK + Europe
May + June 2022

Presented by Spinning Top

Tickets on sale now

Tuesday 31 May | Sala Moon, Valencia ES
Thursday 2 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 Lights of Leeming out now

9 deluxe album edition out Friday 20 May

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