Product Overview
Pond - 9 (Vinyl) In Pond’s universe nothing stays still for long. Although no one who heard 2019’s “Tasmania” could possibly describe its pulsating psych-pop as straight, Pond wanted to try a more spontaneous way of working for their next record. Taking a leaf out of krautrock outliers Can’s book, at the start of 2020, Pond embarked on a series of totally off-the-cuff jam sessions from which songs and ideas could be pulled out. Given the pace at which ideas whizz past your head, it makes for a dizzying listen. Opener Song For Agnes explodes out the speakers like an intergalactic rock opera, running a synapse-tingling gauntlet through bubbling synth pop, 80s hair metal and blissed out saxophone before you know what’s hit you. It’s an opposite curtain-raiser for an album that can encompass pounding techno, elastic hipped robo-funk, tripped out motorik and acres more besides without even topping for breath. Above all, what you get from “9” is a sense of creative abandon and just plain fun. TRACKLISTING 1. Song For Anges 2. Human Touch 3. Americas Cup 4. Take Me Avalon Im Young 5. Pink Lunettes 6. Czech Locomotive 7. Rambo 8. Gold Cup : Plastic Sole 9. Toast
