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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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Spready Hazel,
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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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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