Pond Returns with Uplifting New Single 'Terrestrials' and Djo Support Tour
Australian psych-rock band Pond is back with 'Terrestrials,' their first new music since 'Stung!' in 2024, and have announced tour dates supporting Djo.
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Pond has released a captivating new single, ‘Terrestrials,’ and announced upcoming live shows supporting Djo.
The Australian five-piece's new track marks their first release since their 10th studio album ‘Stung!’ in the summer of 2024.
‘Terrestrials’ delves into the complexities of humanity, exploring our capacity for both love and cruelty. Frontman Nicholas Allbrook and the band examine societal contradictions, highlighting mankind's simultaneous appetite for beauty and destruction. The lyrics, “At the sight of the new moon/ The mongrels go berserk/ Baby wanna be weightless/ But it’s a contract signed at birth,” build to an energetic chorus: “It’s all good/ She’ll be alright/Pray in the morning.”
Allbrook explains the song's origins: “Gum [Jay Watson] wrote the music for this one and we recorded this in Mullumbimby with Julian Abbott at Nowave studio. This song is about the weirdest of all the terrestrials, people. Hellbent on flying away from or killing our home soil, with a big appetite for destruction, guns, roses. We can love and connect and nurture and inflict unbearable cruelty.”
He adds, “You all know this but, yeah, it’s kind of a great mystery isn’t it? It’s almost more supernatural than extraterrestrials. Which is probably why we wrote this song. There aren’t many of us who can forget for even a second about the unborn tomorrows and dead yesterdays but among them are, apparently, kids and people in love. My cousin Iz helped write this with our chats.”
In addition to the new music, Pond will be touring the US this summer in support of Djo, the project of singer, songwriter, and Stranger Things star Joe Keery. The tour includes five dates, kicking off in Pittsburgh and hitting cities like New York and Richmond.
Tickets are available here.
Pond’s US Tour Dates with Djo:
JULY
14 – Stage AE – Pittsburgh PA / Seneca Land*
17 – Forest Hills Stadium – Forest Hills NY / Lenape Land*
21 – Thompson’s Point – Portland ME / Abenaki Land*
23 – Artpark Amphitheatre – Lewiston, NY / Tuscarora Land*
31 – Allianz Amphitheatre at the Riverfront – Richmond, VA / Algonquin Land*
*supporting Djo
This announcement follows recent sightings of members of Pond, Tame Impala, Geese, and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard together in the studio in Perth.
Geese’s touring keyboardist, Sam Revas, shared an Instagram video featuring Max Bassin and Emily Green jamming with members of the aforementioned bands, including Kevin Parker on guitar and Ambrose Kenny-Smith.
The collaborations aren't entirely unexpected, given Pond’s long-standing touring relationship with Tame Impala and Kenny-Smith’s collaboration with Jay Watson on the 2024 album ‘Ill Times.’ Geese also previously supported King Gizzard on their US tour in 2024.
Pond's previous album, ‘Stung!’, followed their 2021 record ‘9’. In a four-star NME review, Rhys Buchanan wrote: “It can be a risky game to throw yourself into so many different styles on a record, let alone within individual songs. Yet – from Bowie to Kurt Cobain and William Burroughs – artists of all kinds have found joy in such surrealist methods of cutting up their work and putting it back together.
“Having perhaps taken their psych-pop to the edges of what’s possible, Pond deserve this moment. Hopefully, it proves a gateway to a new era for the band that keeps on giving.”
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