Pond - 9 LP LTD Coke Bottle Coloured Vinyl

1. Song for Anges
2. Human Touch
3. Americas Cup
4. Take Me Avalon Im Young
5. Pink Lunettes
6. Czech Locomotive
7. Rambo
8. Gold Cup / Plastic Sole
9. Toast

In Ponds universe nothing stays still for long. Although no one who heard 2019s Tasmania could possibly describe its pulsating psych-pop as straight, Pond wanted to try a more spontaneous way of working for their next record.

Taking a leaf out of krautrock outliers Cans book, at the start of 2020, Pond embarked on a series of totally off-the-cuff jam sessions from which songs and ideas could be pulled out.

Given the pace at which ideas whizz past your head, it makes for a dizzying listen. Opener Song For Agnes explodes out the speakers like an intergalactic rock opera, running a synapse-tingling gauntlet through bubbling synth pop, 80s hair metal and blissed out saxophone before you know whats hit you. Its an apposite curtain-raiser for an a