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POND – ” Fire In The Water “

Posted: January 13, 2018 in MUSIC
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With the new digital reissue of their 2017 album ‘The Weather’ – produced by Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker – released this week, Aussie band Pond have shared a music video for ‘Fire In The Water’, a bonus track from the work.

Directed, filmed and edited by acclaimed visual artist Kristofski, the clip features POND frontman, Nicholas Allbrook dancing joyously through the streets of Tokyo.

Of the video’s origin, Kristofski states: “Jay [Watson] hit me up on Instagram and said “Hey Kristio, do you wanna come meet us in Tokyo in two days and shoot a clip?” and then I was in Tokyo and by far it was the most rude trip of my life. We got lost a lot and kinda just followed Nick around because he kept wanting to find this rainbow bridge which I don’t think ever existed. Sometimes we would just stop and film where ever we were.

“The original idea was Nick turning into a jellyfish, floating over the buildings looking down on all these people eating ramen and sushi but that idea didn’t really fly. That was Nick’s idea, by the way.  I like how we have those koi fish in the clip, because they are like fire in the water. It was also Joe’s birthday, which was nice.”

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POND – ” Colder Than Ice “

Posted: September 24, 2017 in MUSIC
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POND aren’t a band who need any extra help when it comes to exuding sheer weirdo cool, but we’re never going to complain about too much of a good thing, so their new clip with Kirin J Callinan is about everything we could rightly ask for.

Fresh off his own clip that, thanks to the impeccable use of a Jimmy Barnes cameo, is already a lock for best of the year, Callinan wanders onto Pond’s set for the glorious throwback tune ‘Colder Than Ice’ – taken from their new Kevin Parker-produced album The Weather – proving the ideal man to complement its perfectly-weighted ’80s pastiche. Callinan is just the crouton in this synth-driven salad, though, drenched as it is in delicious synth bass and echoed wink-and-a-nod vocals – one of the warmer moments on a record that, belying its falsetto theatrics and synth sheen, often shows the band at their darkest.

 

‘Colder Than Ice’ isn’t just a palate cleanser between the more melancholy moments, though; it’s one of the tracks that, along with singles like ‘Sweep Me Off My Feet’, most clearly illustrates Pond’s perfectly-executed shift from their beginnings as a straight-faced psych-rock band to the multi-faceted gem they’ve become, with The Weather yet another big step along a path that already delivered us the brilliant Man It Feels Like Space Again just two years back.

POND – ” The Weather “

Posted: July 26, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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“The Weather” is taken from Pond’s new album “The Weather” Out on Marathon Artists on 5th May.

The band’s seventh album The Weather issued in May is soaking up acclaim, with a universally positive critical response. Hailed ‘The Hottest Band In The World’ by NME, the disc scooped four star reviews from Q and Mojo with Uncut stating ‘…like The Flaming Lips at their best… solid pop tunes and heartfelt existential concerns 8/10’. 
Produced by Tame Impala mainman Kevin Parker, the two outfits share a long history with band members past and present switching between the two groups. 

 

 

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CAMERON AVERY – ” Ripe Dreams Pipe Dreams “

Posted: March 21, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Cameron Avery is best known as bassist of Australian psych-rockers Tame Impala, as well as frontman of fellow Australian band The Growl. Over the last few years he’s been building up his very own solo career, doing some opening performances under his own name, including support for The Last Shadow Puppets tour last year .

On March 10th, Avery released his debut solo album “Ripe Dreams, Pipe Dreams” via Anti Records . He celebrated the release of the album one day early with a performance at Baby’s All Right in Brooklyn. The show actually almost didn’t happen, as Avery got held up at the airport until nearly 6pm due to an issue with U.S. customs (something that will sadly probably become a problem for many artists in the next four years). Thankfully, he made it work, and the show went on.

The lineup of his band had changed quite a bit since the last time I saw him, as his band The Growl had joined him to bring his songs to life. Avery expanded the setlist by included a few of The Growl’s songs (“Douse The Lamps” and “John the Revelator”) along with the soulful songs off his record. It was a nice mix that added a little bit of power to the show, and let his band enter their comfort zone for just a moment.

The show was nearly sold out, and based on the crossover appeal from Tame Impala and The Last Shadow Puppets, and the fact that he’s writing some really good songs, it’s only a matter of time until he breaks out on his own. There’s also the undeniable fact that the women at this show were loving him, making it clear that his fan base will be growing in no time at all.

 

CAMERON AVERY – ” Dance With Me “

Posted: March 9, 2017 in MUSIC
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“Dance With Me” is the third single from ‘Ripe Dreams, Pipe Dreams’

Cameron Avery is back with a new song today. It’s one of our favorites from his forthcoming album ‘Ripe Dreams, Pipe Dreams‘ out March 10th. Simply, the series of songs Cameron Avery is coming up with surround the release of his album have to mark it as an early contender for those ‘Best Of The Year…’ lists, and you just need to know about it. Thus, I shall tell you. Latest visually-enhanced instalment is Dance With Me (Spinning Top/Anti), again a long way from his Tame Impala and Pond credits. And sure it has some ironic self-awareness, an arched eyebrow to its noir-ish tone, which might be deliberately winking at itself. But, as Berlin-era Iggy collides with some Lennie Cohen via some Rat Pack lounge-lizarding, it’d all fall to slivers if there wasn’t real craft and talent in what has been made.

POND – ” The Weather “

Posted: February 3, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Nick Allbrook’s Pond, who predates Tame Impala by a few years, is greeting 2017 with new album release The Weather, its their 7th full-length album since their genesis in 2008.  Similar to Tame Impala’s veering path with Currents and weirdo godfathers The Flaming Lips’ transition into The Soft Bulletin, Pond are putting their guitars down and reaching for the synths.  With Kevin Parker at the helm in the studio, however, their electronic impulses are taking them to new and interesting psychedelic heights.  Singles “30000 Megatons” and “Sweep Me Off My Feet” embrace both pop and avant garde, a daring Bowie-esque move that’s opened their doors for experimentation wide open.

Rough Trade has a limited ‘white with blue specs’ variant across the ocean, so if you dig that kind of thing, head on over and grab one. POND’s unbridled creativity has seen them push the boundaries of psychedelic-rock and on their forthcoming album The Weather, the Perth based four-piece have created their most sharp and focussed record to date.

POND – ” Sweep Me Off My Feet “

Posted: January 26, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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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

POND – ” Sweep Me Off My Feet “

Posted: November 20, 2016 in MUSIC
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Kevin Parker, the main creative force behind Tame Impala, has co-produced a song called “Sweep Me Off My Feet” for his bandmates’ side-project Pond. The single is taken from Pond’s upcoming album, which is set to arrive in “early 2017.” Grabbing Parker to produce is a pretty big coup these days, especially as the Tame Impala man’s been pretty busy with his other projects.

Pond have shared a new song titled “Sweep Me Off My Feet.” is a floaty psych-rock odyssey that really bears the Kevin Parker stamp Produced by the band alongside Tame Impala’s frontman (and sometime bandmate) Kevin Parker, the track marks their first piece of new music since January 2015. Listen to it below  “Sweep Me Off My Feet” is taken from Pond’s forthcoming new album, which arrives in “early 2017.” The band have also announced new U.S. tour dates; find those below as well. Pond’s last album is “Man It Feels Like Space Again”. both Allbrook and Jay Watson have kept themselves busy by venturing into their own solo projects.

POND – ” 30,000 Megatons “

Posted: November 11, 2016 in MUSIC
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This song was going to be released with the rest of the album but today it seems like the right time, Pond, the band that features Tame Impala’s multi-instrumentalist Jay Watson (also of  the band Gum) and former bassist Nicholas Allbrook , have shared a new song called “30000 MEGATONS.” It is taken from their upcoming follow-up to 2015’s “Man It Feels Like Space Again” which is due for a “early 2017” release. They originally intended to release the song with the rest of the album, but wrote in a tweet, today “seems like the right time.” Listen to“30000 Megatons” below.

Last month, the band shared the forthcoming album’s debut single “Sweep Me Off My Feet,” which was produced alongside Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker (who is a former member of Pond).

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POND – ” Zond “

Posted: January 12, 2015 in MUSIC
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Building towards the arrival of their new album “Man It Feels Like Space Again” on Friday 26th January, Pond unveil its warped pop crown  the Australian psych band featuring members of Tame Impala, share another track from their upcoming new album to be released on January 26th in the UK via Caroline Records.
‘Zond’ is the latest track from the Perth outfit, and comes with the zany video  which was shot last December. Directed by Lord Fascinator (aka Johnny Mackay from Children Collide), the video is a zany ride of the band dancing in lycra bodysuits, and dressed as old ladies, before and rockin’ out in the pool.

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POND 2015 UK + European live dates:
February
19 Thu IRELAND Dublin Whelans
20 Fri UK SHEFFIELD The Leadmill
23 Mon SCOTLAND GLASGOW Oran Mor
24 Tue UK BIRMINGHAM The Library
25 Wed UK LONDON Electric Ballroom
26 Thu UK MANCHESTER Academy 2
27 Fri UK BRISTOL Fleece

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