Perhaps they are secret Poms because POND want to talk about “The Weather” their latest album. The album from the Aussie band is due out on May 5th via Marathon Artists. The album will feature the previously released track ’30,000 Megatons’ a supremely cosmic track about nuclear armageddon posted to Soundcloud on the day President Trump was elected accompanied by the message: “This song was going to be released with the rest of the album, but today it seems like the right time.”
the video to the previously released ‘Sweep Me Off My Feet’. It’s the first track taken from new album ‘The Weather’, and the video is a dreamlike mix of juxtapositions: stock footage of office meetings, sunny getaways, mascara-soaked showers, debt ceilings, Jesus, and mindless self-congratulation.
Frontman Nicholas Allbrook’s explaination of the album as a whole helps decode it all: ’The Weather’ is a concept album, not completely about Perth, but focusing on all the weird contradictory things that make up a lot of colonial cities around the world. Laying out all the dark things underneath the shimmering exterior of cranes, development, money and white privilege. It’s not our place, but it is our place. British, but Australian, but not REAL Australian. On the edge of the world with a hell of a lot of fucked things defining our little city, still we try and live a wholesome respectful life, while being inherently disrespectful. At the end of all this confusion in our weird little white antipodean world, there’s the beach, purity and nature that brings us all together”.
So new album; check. New single: check. New video: check. What’s left? Ah yes, a one off Valentine’s day show at The Moth Club in London. Luckily enough the band have announced just that. So if you would like to take your dearest love to see four aussies fill a small room with blood, sweat and fears then you’re sorted.
In all honesty, we can’t think of a better way to spend the Hallmark holiday than with one of the best live bands on the planet. ‘Sweep Me Off My Feet’ is the first single off Pond’s new album The Weather
Out on Marathon Artists on 5th May
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