Artist: pond

Watch 'Xanman' below. Hobo Rocket will see daylight shortly. Click here to view the embedded video. MP3: POND - Tears Of A Clown

Perth's Pond specialize in a very British take on pysch pop with a sound that would have felt very much a piece with the Britpop bands of the '90s. On "Xanman", Pond goes for crunchy Oasis rhythm and chords blended with hard rock beats, swirling textures and fuzzy vocals. It's a pretty great single and is, indeed, the first single from the band's upcoming fourth album, Hobo Rocket, releasing 5/6 August via Modular.

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Originaire de Perth, Pond est un collectif mouvant de musiciens articulé autour des membres de Tame Impala  auxquels viennent se greffer Joseph Ryan des Mink Mussel Creek et Jamie Terry de The Silents. Après avoir fait très forte impression avec leur quatrième album Beard, Wives, Denim sortie l'an dernier, où ils perpétuaient avec brio la grande tradition du rock australien, ils dévoilaient en février dernier,  Giant Tortoise  -que l'on peut écouter sur notre playlist #4, ici [...]

Beeld: Pond - Xanman // Blast from the past!

Listen to “Xanman”, Pond’s new single taken from their upcoming 5th album Hobo Rocket . Out August 6th via Modular.

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Aproximadamente um mês após terem anunciado o lançamento de um novo álbum  de estúdio, bem como a primeira extracção em formato vídeo, para "Giant Tortoise", os POND estão de regresso e avançam, assim, com mais um single do novo trabalho: "XanMan". Continuando dentro das sonoridades onde os grandes riffs soam como os heróis da música, a banda australiana volta a dar-nos o habitual psicadelismo, mas desta vez numa faceta bem mais desvanecida da já conhecida, onde a voz de  Nick Allbrook é uma presença fulcral nesta nova composição adquirindo um registo diferente e distorcido. [...]

• Pond - Xanman

The second sonic onslaught from the forthcoming album by POND is called 'Xanman', and it’s out today worldwide. Lifted off their fifth album, 'Hobo Rocket' (out August 2nd here in Oz), the song has long been a part of their notoriously wild live show, and is now available for the first time in recorded form, as a stream below or single for purchase. Hobo Rocket is the fifth LP from the Perth-based five-piece. Made up of Nick Allbrook, Jay Watson, Cam Avery, Joseph Ryan and Jamie Terry, the band set out to [...]

Three things that Mormon lumberjacks simply couldn't get enough of back in the old days. (Ba dum bum. Did I just alienate my Mormon readership?) Australia's Pond (not to be confused with Matt Pond or the band Pond from Oregon) is generally labeled as something along the lines of a "psych pop" band, and listening to the entirety of their March 2012 album, Beard, Wives, Denim , you can generally catch the gist of that. There's a touch of late-'60s psychedelia mixed in with their indie/glam amalgam. But as I listened to [...]

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Nick Allbrook, second from the right. Success can be a lot to deal with, and this past weekend we saw evidence of that. Australian psych rock band Tame Impala have been a runaway success since their debut album Innerspeaker was released back in 2010, continuing even further with last year's Lonerism . The band's bassist Nick Allbrook has decided that he will be taking a step back from the limelight, announcing his departure in an official statement . It states that he "is hopping off the Tame Impala [...]

Over the weekend, Tame Impala announced that following a performance at Belvoir Amphitheatre on Saturday night (5/18), bassist Nick Allbrook would no longer be a member of the band, citing a need for time to "try and screw his head back on, and make an attempt to assimilate back into society." Allbrook is also the frontman of psych band Pond and will continue to play with them, while Pond member Cam Avery replaces Allbrook in Tame Impala. The band kindly wrote of the lineup change, "Anyone who saw us during the Allbrook-era will know how awesome Nick is, [...]

Nick “Paisley Adams” Allbrook en Coachella / Foto: Daniel Patlán Este fin de semana, dentro del sitio oficial de Tame Impala , se confirmó la salida de su bajista Nick Allbrook y la entrada de Cam Avery . En el texto que la banda publicó, aparece una breve y sencilla explicación: Tenemos grandes noticias. Es el fin de una era. Esta noche, Nick tendrá su última presentación con nosotros. Nick Roland Paisley Adams Allbrook salta fuera del vagón de Tame Impala para [...]

Photo by G. Nick Allbrook In a statement on Tame Impala's Facebook page, they announced that keyboardist and bassist Nick Allbrook has left the band.  Nick is also the lead singer of Pond, but there is no comment on whether he has left Tame Impala to focus on Pond full time or not.  Allbrook will be replaced by Cam Avery.  Good luck to Nick, who I've seen as both a member of Pond and Tame Impala many times. [...]

A much grittier sounding Tame Impala (and made up of members of said band), check out the POND 's psych-rocking new video GIANT TORTOISE .

Here's an absolute stonker of a track from Australian psych-rockers, Pond . Giant Tortoise is definitely a step forward from last year's slacker rock-esque,  Beards, Wives, Denim album. The band, who share a bassist with Tame Impala (and have a frequently changing line-up) have beefed up their sound and if this track is anything to go by now sound like the rather lovely missing link between Mercury Rev and [...]

“Giant Tortoise” , tema con el que Pond nos anunciaban "Hobo Rocket", ya tiene videoclip, el nuevo LP se espera para el 2 de agosto, ganazas de lo nuevo de estos australianos.

Ever wondered what Tame Impala would sound like if they were to add a gritty jam-band tone to their spaced-out vibe? Well, don't waste time thinking about it and let the Australian five-piece  Pond demonstrate. Having put out four albums as a group, Pond's newest release "Giant Tortoise" is a flangered-out distorted jumble to which an airy lo-fi vibe softens the load. Accredit the familiar sound to the fact that Pond borrows two of Tame Impala's instrumentalists (Bassist Nick Allbrook and Drummer Jay Watson) and often feature Impala's front-man Kevin Parker [...]

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While not barefoot and relatively sedate onstage with Tame Impala, bassist Nick Allbrook plays the part of kinetically charged, livewire frontman for his own band Pond, a project cut from similarly psilocybic, riff-loaded, flanged-out cloth. Allbrook's ecstatic fits tend to be one step shy of you being legit worried he's having a seizure, though obviously he's got the stoner-mellow thing down cold, too. So "Giant Tortoise," the first single and video from Pond's forthcoming fifth LP Hobo Rocket , has all those elements in one - it opens with a Primal Scream churn before moving into decidedly Mercury Revved [...]

Hobo Rocket will see daylight on 8/6 via Modular. It features: 1. Whatever Happened To The Million Head Collide 2. Xanman 3. O Darma 4. Aloneaflameaflower 5. Giant Tortoise 6. Hobo Rocket 7. Midnight Mass (At The Market Street Payphone) Watch 'Giant Tortoise' via YouTube. POND recently dropped by Daytrotter. Purchase POND items via Insound. MP3: POND - Tears Of A Clown

Os Pond , banda australiana que conta com membros pertencentes aos Tame Impala, avançou com novidades quanto ao novo álbum que em Fevereiro era especulado para sair na primavera. Hobo Rocket,  o sucessor de  Beard, Wives, Denim (2012), contará com sete músicas novas, das quais, "Giant Tortoise", o primeiro avanço do álbum, ganha também um formato audiovisual que é uma completa viagem alucinante. Nos registos psicadélicos, a mencionada tortura, é desenhada na tela visual através de sentimentos de adrenalina, imagens características das consequências da ingestão de substâncias psicoativas, explosões vulcânicas e uma [...]

Now that the Groovin’ The Moo tour has wrapped up for another year, the members of TAME IMPALA can return to their various side-projects that usually occupy most of their time. The most popular side project for the Perth boys POND have decided to release a video for their track ‘Giant Tortoise’ which has been getting a hell of a lot of airplay on Triple J . The spacy rock track is clearly depicted on screen as the video begins with some very trippy mirror images before [...]